A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.
WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.
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Mazza A, Voorrips E, Hughes G et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Daily, we perform activities in the presence of others (e.g., office work). While it's well-established that the mere presence of others can influence our performance, it is less clear whether others' performance, rather than just their…
Tavernier N, Wisniewski D, Brass M · 2024 · Preprint
Over the last 15 years, researchers in psychology asserted that manipulating laypeople’s free will beliefs (FWB) has an impact on various downstream social behaviors (such as cheating). More recently, however, many of these findings failed…
Román-Caballero R, Martín-Arévalo E, Martín-Sánchez PDC et al. · 2024 · Consciousness and cognition
Entrainment theories propose that attention inherently oscillates between moments of attentional enhancement and disengagement. Consequently, perceptual and response benefits have been reported in tasks with a rhythmic structure. In the…
Oddleifson C, Kilgus S, Klingbeil DA et al. · 2025 · Journal of school psychology
The purpose of this study was to conduct a conceptual replication of Pendergast et al.'s (2018) study that examined the diagnostic accuracy of a nomogram procedure, also known as a naive Bayesian approach. The specific naive Bayesian…
Tal A, Mudrik L · 2024 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
The field of consciousness studies has yielded various-sometimes contradicting-accounts regarding the function of consciousness, ranging from denying it has such function to claiming that any high-level cognitive function requires…
Romeas T, Goujat M, Faubert J et al. · 2025 · Psychology of sport and exercise
The impact of domain-general cognitive 'brain' training on improving sports performance is highly debated. This study sought to follow-up on research that showcased the benefits of perceptual-cognitive 3D-Multiple Object Tracking (3D-MOT)…
Román-Caballero R, Martín-Arévalo E, Martín-Sánchez PdC et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Entrainment theories propose that attention inherently oscillates between moments of attentional enhancement and disengagement. Consequently, perceptual and response benefits have been reported in tasks with a rhythmic structure. In the…
Houben M, Rief W, Gärtner T et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Abstract Background: Depression is related to a reduced update of negative expectations in response to positive information. Here, we aimed to replicate that cognitive immunization (a cognitive devaluation of expectation-disconfirming…
Whiteford KL, Baltzell LS, Chiu M et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Musical training has been associated with enhanced neural processing of sounds, as measured via the frequency following response (FFR), implying the potential for human subcortical neural plasticity. We conducted a large-scale multi-site…
Zhou Y, Tse CS · 2025 · The Journal of general psychology
In English, head is associated with rationality and logic, whereas heart is related to feeling and emotionality. In Chinese, these head- and heart-related metaphors also exist. Could these head- and heart-related conceptual metaphors…
Noel M, Suttapitugsakul S, Cummings RD et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Protein O-glycosylation is a critical modification in the brain, as genetic variants in the pathway are associated with both common and severe neuropsychiatric phenotypes. However, little is known about the most abundant type of O-glycan…
Stüber AT, Heimer MM, Ta J et al. · 2025 · European journal of radiology
This study investigates the predictive capability of radiomics in determining programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression (>=1%) status in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients using a newly collected [18F]FDG PET/CT dataset.…
Centorame G, Warrington NM, Hemani G et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Background Breastfeeding is hypothesised to benefit child health and cognitive functioning by providing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA), which are essential for brain development. In 2007, Caspi et al. found evidence in…
Wiesing M, Zimmermann E · 2023 · Preprint
Intentional actions produce a temporal compression between the action and its outcome, known as intentional binding. However, Suzuki et al. (2019) recently showed that temporal compression can be observed even without intentional actions.…
Lloyd B, Wurm F, de Kleijn R et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Background Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a promising brain stimulation method for the treatment of pharmaco-resistant epilepsy and depression. Its clinical efficacy is thought to depend on taVNS-induced…
Ahrens A, Liesefeld HR, Kinner J et al. · 2026 · Psychological research
In everyday life, we often generalize previously learned associations between our actions and their outcomes to novel, but similar situations. The present study aimed to conceptually and directly replicate results reported by Esser et al.…
Wentura D, Gurbuz E, Paulus A et al. · 2023 · Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
When asked to judge or react to a facial emotional display of a person, people do not only take the emotion into account, but also other socially important features of the face, such as, for example, ethnicity (Kozlik & Fischer, 2020;…
Dede A, Xiao W, Vaci N et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Abstract Neurodevelopmental disorders are difficult to diagnose, requiring expert clinicians and subjective judgements. Consequently, there has been interest in finding quantitative biomarkers for some disorders using resting state…
Marshall K, Thothathiri M · 2023 · Preprint
Comprehenders make predictions about the meaning and structure of linguistic information as the utterance unfolds. However, when the actual content does not match the expectation, costly reanalysis processes are required. Previous work has…
Lucchi F, Lloyd B, Nieuwenhuis S · 2024 · Psychophysiology
The vagus nerve is thought to be involved in the allostatic regulation of motivation and energy metabolism via gut-brain interactions. A recent study by Neuser and colleagues (2020) provided novel evidence for this process in humans, by…
Hermans P, Vandevoorde K, Orban de Xivry J · 2023 · Preprint
In motor adaptation, learning is thought to rely on a combination of several processes. Two of these are implicit learning (incidental updating of the sensory prediction error) and explicit learning (intentional adjustment to reduce target…
Jiang S, Jones M, von Bastian C · 2023 · Preprint
Abstract In recent years, non-invasive brain stimulation has been highlighted as a possible intervention to induce cognitive benefits, including on visual working memory (VWM). However, findings are inconsistent, possibly due to…
Yang Z, Pajuste FD, Zguro K et al. · 2025 · Nature genetics
Understanding disease progression is of high biological and clinical interest. Unlike disease susceptibility, whose genetic basis has been abundantly studied, less is known about the genetics of disease progression and its overlap with…
Horton CB Jr, Adam H, Galinsky AD · 2025 · Personality & social psychology bulletin
Enclothed cognition refers to the systematic influence that clothes can have on the wearer's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors through their symbolic meaning. It has attracted considerable academic and nonacademic interest, with the 2012…
Chen TA, Chuang YT, Pai SC et al. · 2025 · Microorganisms
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) remains a significant concern in intensive care units (ICUs), contributing to increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Probiotics and synbiotics have been explored as potential preventive…
Alben N, Arthur C · 2024 · Attention, perception & psychophysics
In the present paper, we carry out a replication of a seminal paper by Kahneman, D. & Beatty, J. (1967). Perception & Psychophysics, 2(3),101-105 for using pupillometry as an implicit measure of auditory processing load, specifically,…
Dede AJO, Xiao W, Vaci N et al. · 2023 · Preprint
ABSTRACT Mental health conditions are difficult to diagnose, requiring expert clinicians and subjective judgements. There has been interest in finding quantitative biomarkers using resting state electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Here, we…
Aicoboaie S, Pappaianni E, Abdulkadir M et al. · 2025 · Psychological medicine
Background Shared genetic risk has been shown across psychiatric disorders. In particular, anorexia nervosa (AN), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and schizophrenia (SCZ) show shared genetic risk that matches clinical evidence of…
Bechtel GN, Kostelnik CJ, Rausch MK · 2025 · Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A
Tissue mimicking materials are designed to represent real tissue in applications such as medical device testing and surgical training. Thanks to progress in 3D-printing technology, tissue mimics can now be easily cast into arbitrary…
Saladini F, Giannini A, Giammarino F et al. · 2026 · Open forum infectious diseases
Background HIV-1 sub-subtype A6 is predominant in Eastern Europe and was associated with increased risk of treatment failure with the long-acting cabotegravir plus rilpivirine regimen. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the in vitro…