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Stump K, Morar H, Talsania A et al. · 2026 · Hand (New York, N.Y.)
Background Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) use has demonstrated positive effects on bone metabolism and pseudoarthrosis following fusion surgery. There is, however, little evidence regarding the preoperative use of…
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Ricketts W, Hartshorne JK · 2022 · Preprint
We replicated Experiment 3 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners' use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Cognition, 108(2), 477-499. This is part of a larger project…
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Ricketts W, Hartshorne JK · 2022 · Preprint
We replicated Experiment 1 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Cognition, 108(2), 477-499. This is part of a larger project…
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Matziorinis AM, Gaser C, Koelsch S · 2022 · Preprint
Music-making and engagement in music-related activities have shown procognitive benefits for healthy and pathological populations, suggesting reductions in brain aging. A previous brain aging study, using Brain Age Gap Estimation…
View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1991605/v1 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Egeskov-Cavling AM, van Wijhe M, Yakimov V et al. · 2024 · The Journal of infectious diseases
Background Worldwide, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections are among the most common causes of infant hospitalization. Host genetic factors influencing the risk and severity of RSV infection are not well known. Methods We conducted…
View details →DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiad370 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Tan E, Williams HC · 2026 · American journal of clinical dermatology
Nicotinamide has been widely promoted as a low-cost safe chemopreventive agent against non-melanoma skin cancer. A recent large retrospective study of more than 33,000 US veterans reported a 14% reduction in overall skin cancer risk and a…
View details →DOI: 10.1007/s40257-025-01005-y Negative / Null Result Report
IJzerman H, Denissen JJA · 2022 · Preprint
Liu, Wang, and Van Lange (2022) have published a study that “replicated earlier findings that prosociality was associated with a greater level of secure attachment and a lower level of avoidant attachment” and that “prosociality was…
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Kalkunte NG, Delabmbre TE, Sohn S et al. · 2022 · Preprint
The potential of human induced pluripotent stem cell differentiated cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) is greatly limited by their functional immaturity. Strong relationships exist between CM structure and function, leading many in the field to…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.26.509194 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Lien MC, Ruthruff E · 2023 · Journal of cognition
There is emerging evidence that suppressing distractors occur to prevent capture by those distractors. Theeuwes (2022) claimed that the absence of capture is not because of suppression but rather because a difficult, serial search causes…
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Mochizuki M · 2022 · Cognitive processing
The QWERTY effect is a phenomenon in which words typed with more characters from the right side (everything to the right of T, G, and B) of a standard keyboard (i.e. QWERTY keyboard) are evaluated as having a higher valence or a more…
View details →DOI: 10.1007/s10339-022-01092-3 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Famularo RL, Aboelata A, Schatz T et al. · 2026 · Developmental science
Human newborns are able to discriminate between certain languages but not others. This ability has long been attributed to sensitivity to rhythm-the temporal regularities in speech of different languages. Here, we demonstrate through a…
View details →DOI: 10.1111/desc.70220 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Warman A, Clark A, Malcolm GL et al. · 2024 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
It's been repeatedly shown that pictures of graspable objects can facilitate visual processing, even in the absence of reach-to-grasp actions, an effect often attributed to the concept of affordances. A classic demonstration of this is the…
View details →DOI: 10.1177/17470218241230812 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access
Ruuskanen V, Hagen T, Espeseth T et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Over the past few years, several studies have explored the relationship between resting-state baseline pupil size and cognitive abilities, including fluid intelligence, working memory capacity, and attentional control. However, the results…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.22.546078 Negative / Null Result Report
Bissonnette JN, Francis AM, Hull KM et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Dysconnectivity between cortical networks is a core feature of major depressive disorder (MDD). Electroencephalography (EEG) derived microstates are a cost effective and time sensitive method of examining the dynamics of large-scale brain…
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Melton ZJ, Chaffin R, Kangas-Dick K et al. · 2023 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
The causal relationship of interpersonal liking affecting interpersonal synchrony is inconsistently documented. This study tests whether (a) interpersonal liking increases both behavioural and perceived synchrony and (b) people will…
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Lee MK, El Sergani AM, Herrick N et al. · 2025 · Orthodontics & craniofacial research
Objective Torus Palatinus (TP) is a common trait with an unclear aetiology. Although prior studies suggest a hereditary component, the genetic factors that influence TP risk remain unknown. The purpose of this study is to identify genetic…
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Tengku Kamalden TMI, Azali MZ, Chong LC et al. · 2022 · The Medical journal of Malaysia
Introduction Many factors are associated with cochlear implant (CI) outcomes and various methods of assessment for auditory and speech performance outcomes in CI are available globally. The objective of this study is to identify factors…
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Burch CL, Romanchuk A, Kelly M et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major contributor to bacterial genome evolution, generating phenotypic diversity, driving the expansion of protein families, and facilitating the evolution of new phenotypes, new metabolic pathways, and…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.29.498157 Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessMedicine
Chen P, Zhao W, Li Y et al. · 2025 · BMC pregnancy and childbirth
OBJECTIVE: Thyroid hormones are essential for normal pregnancy and fetal development. The relationship between thyroid disease and the risk of spontaneous abortion (SA) and recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) has been reported, but…
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Wengler K, Baker SC, Velikovskaya A et al. · 2024 · JAMA psychiatry
Importance The link between psychosis and dopaminergic dysfunction is established, but no generalizable biomarkers with clear potential for clinical adoption exist. Objective To replicate previous findings relating neuromelanin-sensitive…
View details →DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.4305 Negative / Null Result Report
Van J, Nielsen SE, Kirwan CB · 2022 · Preprint
Common research practices in neuroimaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging may produce outcomes that are difficult to replicate. Results that cannot be replicated have contributed to a replication crisis in psychology,…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.14.488400 Negative / Null Result Report
Oberauer K · 2021 · Preprint
Some theorists argue that working memory is limited to a discrete number of items, and additional items are not encoded at all. Others assume that all items are represented with variable quality. Adam, Vogel, and Awh (2017) presented…
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MAKINDE AI, Abiodun BJ, James R et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Abstract The West African westerly jet (WAWJ) plays a crucial role in Sahel precipitation, yet there is no information on how well climate models simulate the jet and its contribution to Sahel precipitation. This study examines the…
View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1274137/v1 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Kooij KL, Andreani NA, Keller L et al. · 2025 · The International journal of eating disorders
Objective Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent dieting and reduced food intake, leading to significantly low body weight. Dysbiosis in the gut microbiome of patients with AN has been suggested…
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Kotb A, Wagdy S, Sharaf H et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Preeclampsia is a multi-factorial disease, with both genetic and environmental factors contributing to its development. The genetic susceptibility in preeclampsia has been determined to be around 50%. STORKHEAD_BOX1 PROTEIN 1 (STOX1), is…
View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20238-9 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
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…
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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…
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Woestemeier A, Schwandt T, Lingohr P et al. · 2026 · Surgery open science
Introduction Abdominal surgery causes an inflammatory reaction in the intestines, resulting in a postoperative ileus. Mast cells can be divided into mucosal mast cells and connective tissue mast cells. In this study, we investigated mast…
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Adjangba C, Border R, Romero Villela PN et al. · 2020 · Preprint
ABSTRACT Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death globally. Smoking quantity, measured in cigarettes per day (CPD), is influenced both by the age of onset of regular smoking (AOS) and by genetic factors, including a strong…
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Jamil B, Su J, Elam K et al. · 2025 · Development and psychopathology
Introduction Past research suggests that polygenic scores for major depressive disorder (MDD-PGS), family conflict, and parental acceptance may all predict depressive outcomes among adolescents. Few studies have examined the interplay of…
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