Many Babies Manual

Policies, guidelines, and resources for the ManyBabies Consortium

ManyBabies. 2025. ManyBabies General Manual.

Preface

ManyBabies is a global consortium of developmental psychology labs…

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT

THIS MANUAL IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT! Please use the Google Doc version of the MB General Manual available from the Resources page of the MB website for now. Thanks!

How to use this manual

This manual is organized into

Onward!

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¹ The best way to give us specific feedback is to create an issue on our github page at https://github.com/manybabies/mb-manual/issues.

Citing this manual

BibTeX citation:

@book{manybabies2025,
  author    = {ManyBabies},
  title     = {{ManyBabies General Manual}},
  year      = {2025}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

ManyBabies. 2025. ManyBabies General Manual. https://manybabies.org/mb-manual.

Acknowledgments

This manual was adapted from Experimentology, a open textbook of experimental psychology methods (Frank et al. 2025). We follow in the footsteps of the Experimentology authors by offering this manual openly licensed via CC BY-NC 4.0.

Thanks to the contributions of countless ManyBabies members for their efforts in developing the content of this manual.

References

Frank, Michael C., Mika Braginsky, Julie Cachia, Nicholas A. Coles, Tom E. Hardwicke, Robert D. Hawkins, Maya B. Mathur, and Rondeline Williams. 2025. Experimentology: An Open Science Approach to Experimental Psychology Methods. Stanford University. https://doi.org/10.25936/3JP6-5M50.