February 28, 2019 We are working on a stage 1 registered report submission. Goal is to submit to AMPPS by Fri, Apr 26, 2019. If you wish to contribute to this project, please do two things: 1. Add your information to the collaborators spreadsheet you'll find in the Collaborators component of this OSF project. 2. Subscribe to mightypen@elist.tufts.edu, which I'm thinking we'll use for disseminating updates and maybe some discussion, although I don't want to inundate inboxes. To subscribe, send a message to sympa@elist.tufts.edu from the address you want to subscribe to the list. In the subject line of your message, type in: subscribe mightypen Firstname Lastname (indicate your own first and last name, of course). Leave the message body blank. *** March 4, 2018 Dear colleagues, I received word on January 31, 2018 that AMPPS declined to invite a Registered Replication Report focusing on a laptop/longhand study by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014); they cited flaws in the original work as the primary reason. <*cue wah wah wah sound*> However, on the bright side, they encouraged submission of a [Registered Report][1] focused on conducting a "better-designed study of this topic, and one that is designed to achieve greater ecological validity, perhaps by incorporating a more natural classroom setting and lecture (rather than TED talks)". In the interest of pursuing this option, on March 1, 2018, I (rather impulsively at the last minute) wrote and submitted a short [Teaching Fund][2] grant proposal to the Association for Psychological Science. This seemed a perfect opportunity to obtain funding for this important, potentially massive effort, and a good way to set ideas that had been merely floating around in my brain to the page. Importantly, I see this proposal as *a starting point* for honing in on the best, most theoretically and methodologically rigorous approach. So, if you read the proposal and think "meh" or even "ugh" about certain aspects, please don't assume it's time to exit this space. Rather, I hope you'll assume there's plenty of room for you to help shape the ideas. With that, I invite you to share your thoughts about the proposal (see the APS Teaching Fund Grant Proposal component of this project); the Google doc is set to allow comments and suggestions from anyone. Please comment by March 18, 2018. The next day, I'll open up the document, see what themes have emerged, and go from there. The next big goal is to submit a Stage 1 manuscript to AMPPS no later than August 1, 2018; your comments on the grant proposal represent a first step in getting to that outcome. Finally, if you're reading this as someone who hadn't really known about this project before now, welcome. Want to contribute? If yes, please do two things: 1. Add your information to the collaborators spreadsheet you'll find in the Collaborators component of this OSF project. 2. Subscribe to mightypen@elist.tufts.edu, which I'm thinking we'll use for disseminating updates and maybe some discussion, although I don't want to inundate inboxes. To subscribe, send a message to sympa@elist.tufts.edu from the address you want to subscribe to the list. In the subject line of your message, type in: subscribe mightypen Firstname Lastname (indicate your own first and last name, of course). Leave the message body blank. (Nota bene: I considered starting a Slack channel, but I'm pretty terrible keeping up on Slack.) 3. Read and comment on the grant proposal by March 18, 2018. Cheers, Heather Urry P.S. Anyone attending CNS 2018 in Boston? If so, Jill Waring and I hatched a plan to meet up for lunch on Sunday, March 25, 2018. We're meeting at about noon in the Sheraton Boston Hotel lobby. Join us! *** On January 5, 2018, I submitted a proposal to the journal, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS), for a Registered Replication Report (RRR) focusing on the great work by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014), [The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard][3]. If you are interested in joining this proposal for a RRR, please record your name, institution, country, type of involvement in the project (data collection or other), email address, and Twitter handle in the spreadsheet linked in the Collaborators component of this OSF project. I don't know whether the proposal will meet with success at AMPPS, but it's worth a try! [1]: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/ampps/registered-report-guidelines "Registered Report" [2]: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/teaching/fund-application "Teaching Fund" [3]: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797614524581