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What if you're wrong? What if the most effective anti-procrastination technique is tickling your left foot in exactly the right manner, and this works regardless of whether you believe in its efficacy, or even know about it? That (predicated on a correct theory of human motivation) is the kind of stuff we're looking for.
You're saying that there's no neutral (non-positive and non-negative) self-help advice? That's a pretty weird statement to make. Some advice is good, some is bad; why do you suspect a gap at zero? Failing all else, you could refrain from telling the subjects that the study is about self-control and anti-procrastination, just tell them to blindly follow some instructions and measure the effects covertly.
No, I have no experimental protocol ready yet, but have the impudence to insist that we as a community should create one or shut up.
You don't know what "we" are looking for. There is no one thing "we" are looking for. Some of us may be interested in plausible, attested-to self-help methods, even without experimental support.
Without experimental support is fine. But without extraordinary support isn't. Something must make the plausibility of a particular thing stand out, because you can't be interested in all the 1000 of equally plausible things unless you devote all your time to that.