A more transparent science: recommendations to increase the informative value of articles submitted to the Revista de Psicología Social / Una ciencia más transparente: recomendaciones para aumentar el valor informativo de los artículos enviados a la Revista de Psicología Social

Abstract

In this article we present a series of suggestions that those submitting articles to the Revista de Psicología Social can follow with the goal of increasing the rigour and informative value of the articles submitted. Specifically, we discuss and present three general recommendations: the first on increasing the transparency of the methodological description; the second on increasing the statistical power of the studies; and the third on the distinction between confirmatory and exploratory analyses. We also offer several additional recommendations aimed at making social psychology a more open science. Summing up, we believe that these recommendations can help to increase the quality of research in social psychology and, in particular, the quality of the research published in this journal.