“…When the study is being designed, decisions about the stimuli, the responses, and any contingencies between stimuli and responses can be preregistered. The stimuli that will be used, their orders and durations, the intervals between stimuli, and the equipment used to present those stimuli may have substantial effects on the data that result (see Newman et al, 1987; Smith & Benning, 2021, e.g., in psychopathy and sensation seeking, respectively). To the extent that tasks and stimuli are openly available, researchers can reference them in their registrations.…”