PAD Research Ethics Policy Statement
Editors, reviewers, and readers of articles in PAD expect that authors follow common research ethics standards. In particular, it is expected that authors explain if participants were excluded (and if so, why and how), that their submission reports all measures that the authors consider relevant for the article’s target research question, that they did not add or delete data or variables after hypothesis tests, that they did not reframe a hypothesis to support data, and in the case of an experimental study, that they did not drop experimental conditions.