OpenTalks | # 30: Self-Serving Incentives of Open Science Practices: Peter Clayson Zoom ID: 9139 4010 836OpenTalk1/24/2022 12:00pmOpen science practices are beginning to permeate select subfields of psychology and neuroscience. These practices largely aim to improve the transparency of research. Some academic and funding bodies are beginning to recognize efforts on the part of researchers to “open” their research, but open science practices are not widely incentivized. As a result, researchers who embrace open science practices might believe they are jeopardizing their career advancement. However, there are important (and selfish) reasons for researchers to embrace open science practices that can lead to more methodologically rigorous research, reproducible and replicable findings, and attention to published research than “closed” science practices can. This talk aims to identify the benefits of open science practices to academic researchers, particularly early career researchers and researchers in the field of human electrophysiology. I will draw on EEG/ERP research to demonstrate how researchers benefit from open science practices. These examples include the use of multiverse analyses to identify optimized data processing pipelines, the reporting of psychometric reliability to characterize data quality using the ERP Reliability Analysis Toolbox (http://www.peterclayson.com/era-toolbox/), and the benefit to citations and Altmetric mentions through the posting of preprints. By opening our lab notebooks, software tools, data, and publications, researchers can improve the impact of their own work and advance their academic careers, while simultaneously improving the rigor, validity, and replicability of research in psychology and neuroscience.