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Much well-designed and preregistered research is conducted but never published. The reasons for these studies ending up in the ‘file drawer’ are varied. Making this research public would help us all to do better science.

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Lakens, D., Ensinck, E.N.F. Make abandoned research publicly available. Nat Hum Behav 8, 609–610 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01829-4

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