Affiliated Projects

There are many instances where researchers might benefit from a formal and flexible affiliation with the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA). For example, researchers seeking funding may need to deviate from the typical PSA procedures in order to submit a convincing grant proposal. To support these sorts of projects, the PSA is piloting a PSA Affiliation Project initiative.

In general, PSA-affiliated projects are expected to follow four rules:

  1. Be led by at least one member of the PSA who has agreed to abide by the PSA Code of Conduct.
  2. Follow the five PSA Core Principles: Diversity and Inclusion, Decentralized Authority, Transparency, Rigor, and Openness to Transparency (see the PSA Vision Plan for more information about our principles. Alternatively, the project leads should transparently articulate why those principles are not followed).
  3. Provide quarterly updates on project progress (e.g., how PSA core principles are being upheld).
  4. Provide a net gain (e.g., funding or other strategic gains) for the PSA.

The form will be reviewed by the Associate Directors of the PSA to determine eligibility for the PSA Affiliated Project initiative. We ask for up to 6 weeks to review these applications, but can consider exceptions on an as-needed basis. Proposals are approved if 75% of Associate Directors vote to support it. By default, the Associate Directors should ask for feedback from the PSA network before approving an affiliated project proposal (e.g., by posting a copy of this completed form to the general channel of the PSA slack), and Associate Directors may consult PSA Committees on an as-needed basis.

Please use this form: Affiliated Form and send it in a word document format to directors at psysciacc dot org for consideration.

  • AF001: Preference Matching

    prereg resources preprint paper

    Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching (i.e., do people positively evaluate partners who match versus mismatch their ideals?) has become mired in several problems. For one, articles exhibit discrepant analytic and reporting practices. Furthermore, different findings emerge across laboratories worldwide, perhaps because they sample different relationship contexts and/or populations. The current project—partnered with the Psychological Science Accelerator—can bring clarity to this literature. This registered report uses a highly powered design across multiple world regions to calculate preference-matching effect sizes and variability estimates for all relevant analytic tests. It also examines effects in different relationship contexts and subsamples (e.g., attraction, established relationships, recently formed relationships).

  • AF002: Gratitude Project

    To date, gratitude intervention research has mostly relied on WEIRD samples (i.e., people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies). This has severely limited our understanding of both the function and potential benefits of gratitude. With funding from the John Templeton Foundation and in collaboration with the Psychological Science Accelerator consortium, we are seeking potential collaborators for a cross-cultural (~50 countries) examination of online, 30-minute, single-session gratitude interventions on subjective well-being. This will include both (1) standardized gratitude interventions traditionally developed and validated in WEIRD samples, and (2) localized (e.g., culturally tailored) gratitude interventions that collaborators might design if they so choose.
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