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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now accepted at PCI Registered Reports, with @zoltandienes.bsky.social: "Mesmer’s error: Beliefs reverse the rubber hand illusion". A causal test of competing theories of the RHI. Final manuscript: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Abstract of paper at https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/harqd_v9

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

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ARC ETHOS @arcethos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Zoltan Dienes, one of our PIs, has been editing, authoring and reviewing Registered Reports since 2013. He has tried to put in concise form the lessons learned and what that means for how he approaches research. See his lessons learned here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A new review article out at Behavior Research Methods with @ocorneille.bsky.social and Chloé Fournier Bernard: Addressing Demand Artifacts in Psychological Research (and Beyond). rdcu.be/fAU2f

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Addressing demand artifacts in psychological research (and beyond)

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This Thursday (May 21st) sees the first meeting of the Phenomenal Workshop at the University of Sussex. This one-day workshop is focused on those using the Phenomenological Control Scale, with talks discussing the theory and application of phenomenological control. www.phenomenal-workshop.com

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Phenomenal Workshop - Progress in Phenomenological Control

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“Mesmer’s Error: Beliefs Reverse the Rubber Hand Illusion (Registered Report)” w/@zoltandienes.bsky.social. Suggestion can reverse classic body ownership illusion effects (greater effect for async control). Multisensory synchrony is neither necessary nor sufficient for the illusion. bit.ly/4wvHeUy

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A new preprint: Norms for a German version of the Phenomenological Control Scale from Moritz Schiltenwolf (@skywooo.bsky.social) and Marie Luise Schreiter. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"How participants create illusory experiences to help experimenters." A new preprint of a multi-study manuscript w/ @zoltandienes.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social & Ryan Scott, extending previous work on demand characteristics & phenomenological control in psychological effects. osf.io/n2ukj

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A thread on a new preprint: "Addressing Demand Artifacts In Psychological Research (And Beyond)".

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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned: Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures. This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's a bit of a puzzle. While we don't report any exploratory analysis relating to Dell's proposals in the manuscript, the study OSF site has a .csv with over 500 matched PCS and DES scores if you want to look into it.

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Yes, the theory is very much in line with it and we discuss it briefly. The questionnaire data don't support it, though. Of course, Dell argues that there are problems with interpreting DES data from random samples (truncating the sample as he suggests doesn't change things here, btw).

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

New preprint: "Belief-reinforcing unusual experiences may arise from phenomenological control". doi.org/10.31234/osf... Reports a study testing predictions arising from the theory that phenomenological control evolved to promote experiences of a spirit world in order to support religious beliefs.

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Peer Community in Registered Reports @pci-regreports.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.

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Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

御茶ノ水女子大学の今泉修さんとの論文「現象学的制御尺度（Phenomenological Control Scale）の日本語版開発」がNeuroscience of Consciousness誌に掲載されました！現象学的制御の個人差にご興味のある方はぜひご覧ください! DOI: doi.org/10.1093/nc/n... (スレッドで解説します👇) #心理学 #現象学的制御

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The Japanese version of the Phenomenological Control Scale

Abstract. People vary in their capacity for phenomenological control, which enables them to align their perceptual experiences with their intentions and go

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Peter Lush @peterlush.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A Stage 1 registered report with Zoltan Dienes: "Reversing the Rubber Hand Illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control." A test of whether PC can reverse typical RHI effects, with stronger illusion responses for asynchronous than synchronous conditions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Olivier Corneille @ocorneille.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

In this new preprint, we argue that the role of demand artifacts in evaluative conditioning research can't be readily dismissed. We highlight methodological challenges by discussing three recent articles that addressed that question: dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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