Hot take! Just like p-hacking, one can be guilty of behavior-hacking — for a given manipulation, testing as many different behaviors as you can think of, and then reporting only the one that shows a significant effect!
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That's one method of p-hacking! And it's a key part of how Bem managed to 'confirm' his results. He ran a bunch of 'pilot' studies and only continued with the ones that 'worked'. But he rolled the pilot data into the larger studies instead of starting afresh: https://replicationindex.com/2018/01/05/bem-retraction/
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It basically is just a type of p-hacking.
https://www.compare-trials.org/index.html