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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Long SK, Lee J, Yamani Y et al. · 2022 · Applied ergonomics
Trust is a critical factor that drives successful human-automation interaction in a myriad of modern professional environments. One seminal work on human-automation trust is Muir and Moray (1996) showing that human-machine trust evolves…
Stepanova EV, Strube MJ, Mazur KD · 2023 · The Journal of social psychology
In two studies, participants completed an implicit attractiveness task with faces as primes varying on (a) facial features from Afrocentric to Eurocentric and (b) skin tone from dark to light, and target pictures of environmental scenes…
Qi J, Yin Z, Peng Y et al. · 2025 · Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice
Background Polymyxin B is increasingly used to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria; however, its widespread clinical use is hindered by the high incidence of nephrotoxicity. Antioxidants, such as vitamin…
Rotella A, Sparks AM, Mishra S et al. · 2021 · Preprint
Some evidence suggests that people behave more cooperatively and generously when observed or in the presence of images of eyes (termed the ‘watching eyes’ effect). Eye images are thought to trigger feelings of observation, which in turn…
Alton LA, Kutz T, Bywater CL et al. · 2024 · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Metabolic cold adaptation, or Krogh's rule, is the controversial hypothesis that predicts a monotonically negative relationship between metabolic rate and environmental temperature for ectotherms living along thermal clines measured at a…
Asher MW, Hecht CA, Harackiewicz JM et al. · 2025 · Motivation science
According to expectancy-value theories of motivation, individuals choose to pursue tasks that they expect to succeed at and find personally valuable. Historically, researchers have often suggested that these two factors interact to…
Eshraghi N, Jayervand F, Hashemi N et al. · 2025 · BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Background To determine whether the combination of vaginal progesterone and cervical pessary initiated during the second trimester reduces the incidence of preterm birth and enhance neonatal outcomes among women diagnosed with singleton…
Sulfaro AA · 2026 · Psychonomic bulletin & review
Vividness judgements are intended to capture variance in the axis that uniquely separates the experience of a mental image from other unambiguously sensory perceptual experiences, and from a completely non-sensory experience of one's…
Petkova YP, Johnston JD, Collins AL · 2026 · Food science & nutrition
There is controversy regarding the differential metabolic effects of proteins from plant and animal sources. Existing literature focuses on a limited range of plant proteins consumed just before, or as part of, a mixed meal, resulting in…
Ventura GC, Ryan H, Yu HN et al. · 2026 · World journal of clinical pediatrics
Children born with fetal growth restriction (FGR) or small for gestational age (SGA) face an increased risk of motor and cognitive impairments, although prevalence and severity vary across studies due to differences in definitions,…
Rotondo F, Biddle K, Chen J et al. · 2022 · Neuroscience
The prospect of exploiting memory reconsolidation to treat mental health disorders has received great research interest, particularly following demonstrations that the β-adrenergic receptor antagonist propranolol, which is safe for use in…
Bakare AB, Lee Y, Hong J et al. · 2026 · Health care science
Background Assess ChatGPT and Bard's effectiveness in the initial identification of articles for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery systematic literature reviews. Methods Three PRISMA-based systematic reviews (Jabbour et al. 2017, Wong…
Elmahdy A, Krasnikova M, Jha A et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Ischemic preconditioning (PreC), remote perconditioning (PerC), and postconditioning (PostC) are known to reduce myocardial infarct size, but their relative efficacy and potential additive effects remain unclear. This study compared the…
Lalonde RJ, Keller A, Huq S · 2021 · International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Purpose/objective(s) Previous studies have suggested that the dose immediately outside the PTV may impact the incidence of distant metastases after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with early-stage non-small cell…
Lorenz S, Bartusch L, Heusler C et al. · 2026 · Clinical neurophysiology practice
Objective To investigate whether transcranial static magnetic stimulation (tSMS) exerts inhibitory effects on the human motor cortex and whether these effects differ between dominant and non-dominant hemispheres. Methods Participants…
Batra D, Chen M, Meis J et al. · 2025 · Neurological research and practice
Background Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT)-often combined with intravenous thrombolysis-is the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) secondary to large vessel occlusions (LVO). While indications keep expanding, the feasibility…
Asiimwe R, Welch T, Dwanyen L et al. · 2026 · Family process
The influence of father positive parenting and involvement on children's mental health outcomes is underexplored in many sub-Saharan African countries, such as Uganda, despite research showing that fathers play a critical role in shaping…
Griffioen G, Tangen Ä, Veldman E et al. · 2026 · EJNMMI research
BACKGROUND: Social cognition is impaired across multiple psychiatric disorders and varies dimensionally in the general population. Studying healthy adults can therefore inform mechanisms relevant for social cognition. This study aimed to…
Cariveau T, La Cruz Montilla A · 2022 · Behavior modification
Differential reinforcement of a target response is a necessary component of stimulus control transfer procedures. Recent research has further considered the timing (i.e., onset) of differential reinforcement of unprompted correct…
Bicona D, Mountford HS, Bridges EC et al. · 2025 · Behavior genetics
Literacy is a significant predictor of important life outcomes, such as attained education and income (Ritchie and Bates in Psychol Sci 24(7):1301-1308, 2013. 10.1177/0956797612466268) yet difficulties in reading and spelling are common.…
De Luca A, Verschoor S, Hommel B · 2022 · Experimental psychology
Mood has been argued to impact the breadth of human attention, but the empirical evidence supporting this claim remains shaky. Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008) have attributed previous empirical inconsistencies regarding the effect of mood on…
Chapman HA · 2021 · Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
Emotional stimuli modulate cognitive processes such as attention and memory to facilitate an adaptive response to the environment. For example, previous research suggests that fearful facial expressions broaden attention to help the…
Kott A, Brannan S, Wang X et al. · 2023 · Schizophrenia bulletin open
Objectives We sought to evaluate the impact of baseline anxiety levels on drug placebo separation and drug and placebo response in acutely psychotic schizophrenic subjects. Methods In this post-hoc analysis, modified intent-to-treat…
Suhre K, Chen Q, Halama A et al. · 2025 · Nature genetics
Most studies to date of protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs) have relied on affinity proteomics platforms, which provide only limited information about the targeted protein isoforms and may be affected by genetic variation in their…
Koutsoumpis A · 2020 · Preprint
The main goal of this work was to test the relation between Astrological Belief (AB) to a plethora of psychological constructs. To avoid a very long task, the study was divided into three separate studies independently (but simultaneously)…
Jhelum H, Schäfer R, Kaufer BB et al. · 2025 · Viruses
Porcine cytomegalovirus, more accurately classified as porcine roseolovirus (PCMV/PRV), was shown to be pathogenic in the context of xenotransplantation. Transmission of PCMV/PRV to non-human primates receiving hearts or kidneys from…
Abuleil D, Gorbet D, McCulloch DL et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in neuroscience
Introduction Anodal direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) of the visual cortex is a potential rehabilitation tool for vision disorders such as amblyopia and macular degeneration. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are currently…
Almajed N, Al-Musharaf S, Aldhwayan MM et al. · 2025 · International journal of general medicine
Purpose Certain trace minerals, such as zinc (Zn) and magnesium (Mg), may play a role in glucose regulation and insulin signaling pathways. However, population data from the Middle East are scarce and may differ in terms of dietary and…
Herzig L, Stöckert J, Lochmann M et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in sports and active living
The aim of this study was to determine if positional Worst-Case-Scenarios (WCS) during official games (OG) are replicated in Large-Sided Games (LSG) with a similar Area per Player (ApP) as OG. Twenty-one football players from the second…
Hoffman LJ, Foley JM, Tanrıverdi B et al. · 2025 · Memory & cognition
Memories are pliable and can be biased by post-encoding information. In targeted memory reactivation (TMR) studies, participants encode information then sleep, during which time sounds or scents that were previously associated with the…