https://sarajweston.com/tags/preregistration/Recent content in Preregistration on Sara WestonHugoen-usSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/willroth-personality-2023/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/willroth-personality-2023/Across 15 samples and nearly 359,000 people, we found small but consistent associations between Big Five traits and visiting the dentist, seeing a general practitioner and being hospitalized. The pattern differed by type of care.https://sarajweston.com/publication/mroczek-data-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/mroczek-data-2022/Public longitudinal datasets are a gift to aging research, but heavy reuse of a few of them can make the literature look more independent and more certain than it is. We describe three problems and a set of solutions.https://sarajweston.com/publication/van-den-akker-preregistration-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/van-den-akker-preregistration-2021/A 25-question preregistration template written for analyses of existing data, with guidance on each question and a worked example. It asks researchers to disclose what they already know about a dataset before they test a hypothesis.https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-relationship-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-relationship-2021/In 307 university alumni assessed about 12 years apart, work satisfaction was associated with sense of purpose, but occupational prestige was not. Neither predicted later change in the other.https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-working-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-working-2021/Using up to three waves of the MIDUS study, we asked which features of work are associated with a sense of purpose in life. Skill variety and coworker support were, and the associations were modest.https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-recommendations-2019/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:41:45 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-recommendations-2019/Open-science reforms were built around newly collected data. We describe how researchers who analyze preexisting data can be transparent about what they knew in advance and test how well their results hold up.https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-who-2018/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:41:45 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-who-2018/Using about 2 million bank transactions from 2,133 people, we looked at how Big Five personality traits are associated with holiday spending. Neuroticism and openness were each associated with spending somewhat less, and the associations were small.