Negative / Null Result Report
Fujiyama H, Wansbrough K, Lebihan B et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Non-invasive brain stimulation (NiBS) studies frequently report exploratory correlations between individual-level changes in neurophysiological and behavioural measures. However, these analyses are typically underpowered and rely on…
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Gray JH · 2026 · Preprint
The Laschamps geomagnetic excursion (~41-42 ka BP) represents the largest geomagnetic field collapse in the past 800,000 years, driving documented megafaunal extinctions, Neanderthal extinction, Northern Hemisphere ice sheet expansion, and…
View details →DOI: 10.22541/au.177499034.42719500/v1 Negative / Null Result Report
Williams EA, Ogden R, Stewart AJ et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Trains of auditory clicks increase subsequent judgements of stimulus duration by approximately 10%. Scalar timing theory suggests this is due to a 10% increase in pacemaker rate, a main component of the internal clock. The effect has been…
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Nees MA, Geiss H · 2025 · Preprint
An experiment used a nudge intervention modeled after the question-behavior effect (QBE) in an attempt to reduce speed propensity in a video simulated driving task. Participants viewed a vignette simulating a vehicle start-up sequence. The…
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Nees MA, Geiss H · 2025 · Preprint
An experiment used a nudge intervention modeled after the question-behavior effect (QBE) in an attempt to reduce speed propensity in a video simulated driving task. Participants viewed a vignette simulating a vehicle start-up sequence. The…
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Abdelrazek MN, Mohamed HMM, El-Monshed AH et al. · 2026 · Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
Background : Preoperative anxiety is a common and clinically significant response among surgical patients, with prevalence estimates ranging from 30% to over 80% depending on measurement method and surgical context. Early maladaptive…
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Zhang F, Yang G, Chen Y et al. · 2026 · Virology journal
This comment discusses the critical public health challenge of hepatitis E in pregnancy and highlights the significant safety evidence gap for the HEV239 vaccine in this vulnerable group. Focusing on a landmark study from South Sudan by…
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Huang B, Zhang Q, Li H et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Background Phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) between low- and high-frequency oscillations provides a candidate mechanism for integrating information across cortical networks. While PAC alterations have been reported in disorders of…
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Mizrahi O, Wilf M, Ovadia-Caro S · 2025 · Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Prism adaptation (PA) is a visuomotor adaptation paradigm resulting in transient sensorimotor shifts. Previous work shows PA can cause additional changes in higher-level visuospatial representations in healthy subjects. In patients with…
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Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Buchanan EM et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
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Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
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Judd N, Kievit R · 2024 · Preprint
Education is related to a wide variety of beneficial health, behavioral, and societal outcomes. However, whether education causes long-term structural changes in the brain remains unclear. A pressing challenge is that individuals…
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Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
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Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
View details →DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sfmz8_v3 Negative / Null Result Report
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Buchanan EM et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
View details →DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sfmz8_v2 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Jun S, Bido-Medina R, Oviedo J et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in human neuroscience
Background Systemic viral infections with neurotropic potential pose significant global health challenges. The Zika virus (ZIKV) is known for its pronounced neurotropism, with recent infectious clusters raising renewed public health…
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Wentura D, Rohr M, Kiefer M · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
Masked priming paradigms are frequently used to shine light on the processes of nonconscious cognition. Introducing a new method to this field, Lähteenmäki et al. (2015) claimed that affective priming requires awareness. Specifically, they…
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Cimadevila GC, Thain A, Dib M et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Introduction Pernicious anaemia (PA) is characterised by vitamin B 12 deficiency due to autoimmune-mediated destruction of gastric parietal cells and the consequent loss of intrinsic factor. A considerable proportion of PA patients also…
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Suiu LI, Vreju FA, Turcu-Stiolica A et al. · 2026 · Journal of clinical medicine
Background/Objective: Psoriasis is a systemic inflammatory disease often associated with metabolic comorbidities, including hyperuricemia. While biological therapies effectively target inflammatory pathways, their specific impact on serum…
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Wasiak M, Sypniewski M, Dobosz P et al. · 2026 · Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia worldwide and has a substantial genetic component. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 100 susceptibility loci; however,…
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Gould RK, Moreau K, Fisher B et al. · 2025 · PloS one
It is well established that exposure to nature can reduce stress - but what if that "nature" is in a degraded state? We suggest a gap in research on nature-stress connections--and attempt to fill that gap. We conducted an experiment to…
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Hajra S · 2024 · Preprint
In this article, we have rationally analyzed the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment, along with the unique observation that all electrodynamic phenomena, whether terrestrial, solar, or astral, are independent of the motion of…
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Brown AE, Marostica CW, Martini WA · 2026 · Journal of personalized medicine
Background/Objectives: Machine learning (ML) models can predict hospital admission from emergency department (ED) triage data with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) exceeding 0.85. Whether incorporating the…
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Miles-Novelo A, Anderson CA · 2025 · Aggressive behavior
While numerous meta-analyses, reviews, and task forces from various scientific bodies have linked violent media use to aggression, some studies report null effects and claim that such a relationship is non-existent. Several scholars have…
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Juković M, Stošić S, Kostić D et al. · 2026 · Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives : Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that progressively leads to brain atrophy and the accumulation of disability over time. In this study, we used FreeSurfer to…
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Sevigny JP, Schrank S, Donka RM et al. · 2026 · eNeuro
Synaptic physiology experiments are fundamental to neuroscience research. Consequently, accurate detection of synaptic currents is crucial for conducting high-quality experiments. Traditionally, detecting inhibitory and excitatory…
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Laguna Camacho A · 2024 · Food Quality and Preference.
Recall of recent eating episodes is a versatile approach to test influences on amount eaten of specific food. The present experiment explored if reminding current food intake prompts awareness for eating more healthy food. In a randomised…
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Mameno K, Suzuki T, Yamaguchi S et al. · 2026 · Pest management science
Background An economic incentive scheme is utilized to enhance citizens' support for managing invasive non-native species. However, the effectiveness of the incentive scheme in the outcomes of the management remains unclear. This study…
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Lantian A, Rose M · 2024 · Scandinavian journal of psychology
Transhumanism is a movement that emphasizes the improvement of the human condition by developing technologies and making them widely available. Conspiracy theories regularly refer to the allegedly transhumanist agenda of elites. We…
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Lamba S, Friedman J, Kandpal E · 2025 · Health policy and planning
A long-standing concern suggests that performance-based financing (PBF) may undermine the intrinsic motivation of health workers by heightening extrinsic motivation concerns via the novel introduction of financial incentives. However, the…
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