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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Cassart T, Kyranides MN, Vandevelde S et al. · 2025 · Personality disorders
This study examined the existence and validity of variants of callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Data were available for 309 detained boys ( M age = 16.96) who completed self-reports, experimental tasks, and were administered a diagnostic…
Sitton MJ, McDonald R, Rosenfield D et al. · 2026 · Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)
Emotional support from a caregiver is theorized to benefit adolescents after sexual abuse, yet the empirical evidence for this is inconsistent. The present study examines the cross-sectional relation between caregiver emotional support and…
de Berker HT, Rivers CM · 2026 · The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
ObjectiveTo establish whether mobile applications (apps) are used as part of routine care for patients with cleft lip and palate in the UK and Republic of Ireland and to determine what role apps could play in the delivery of care.DesignA…
Ito N, Fukumoto S · 2025 · Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
A 10-year-old girl developed bilateral gonalgia and waddling gait. Biochemical and imaging studies showed hypophosphatemia with impaired proximal tubular phosphate reabsorption and high intact fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) level,…
Tourigny-Ruel G, Bailey B, Jean-Charles S et al. · 2026 · Headache
Objective This study aimed to evaluate whether a single dose of intravenous dexamethasone, when added to standard abortive therapy, reduces relapse of migraine after emergency department (ED) discharge in children and adolescents.…
Piot L, Nazzi T, Boll-Avetisyan N et al. · 2025 · Infant behavior & development
Consonants have been proposed to be more important than vowels in lexical processes (i.e., C-bias). This study investigated the existence and strength of the C-bias using a familiar word recognition conflict task, in which recognition…
Han X, Chen M, Jiang Y et al. · 2026 · BMC research notes
OBJECTIVE: We used three sound pressure levels (30 dB, 40 dB, and 50 dB) to perform the acoustic-cued water maze test to determine a suitable sound pressure level for the test. RESULTS: The sound pressure levels at 40 dB and 50 dB were…
Rosenheim JA, Cluff E, Morrow K · 2025 · Journal of economic entomology
The European earwig F. auricularia L. is an omnivore that has only recently been identified as a direct, fruit-feeding pest of citrus. Here, we start to build the basic tools needed for integrated pest management for this species. We…
Dugan L, Rei KM, Ueno A et al. · 2025 · The Permanente journal
Introduction Simulation labs provide trainees the opportunity to practice procedures in a safe, controlled, nonjudgmental environment. It is unclear which teaching method leads to the highest levels of trainee skill competency when…
Verrender A, Manley J, Wallace NK et al. · 2025 · Bioelectromagnetics
In order to understand Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-EMF), it has been argued that it is crucial to test for effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on biomarkers, given…
Morgan MM, Hickey CM · 2026 · European journal of pain (London, England)
Background Many people use cannabis to self-medicate for pain. Little is known about the impact of pain on tolerance and spontaneous withdrawal to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinal (THC), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis. Our…
Parham M, Aghaali M, Adeli SH et al. · 2025 · International journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Background Diabetes is a major global health issue, affecting over 8.5% of adults worldwide and significantly increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, the association between diabetes-related macrovascular…
Erb WM, Porter LM, Voyt R et al. · 2025 · American journal of primatology
Among primates, maternal infant care may vary in response to several factors including litter size, reproductive history, and health status. In cooperative breeders, maternal investment may also depend on the amount of help their group…
Corregidor-Castro A, Romano A, Butler M et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Recent climate warming has led to a reduction in bird body size and a relative elongation of their appendages, consistent with Bergmann’s and Allen’s ecogeographical rules. These changes are generally interpreted as thermoregulatory…
Casado-Ruiz J, Castaño-Leon AM, García-Escudero L et al. · 2025 · Journal of neurosurgery
Objective Blunt cerebrovascular injuries (BCVIs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. To identify patients with BCVI who were undetected using the classic criteria, researchers designed the expanded Denver screening…
Gladstone JJ, Lehman M, Decker M · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. Applied
We investigated the influence of childhood poverty on financial decision making under threat by replicating the findings of Griskevicius et al. (2011b), which found that individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to make riskier…
Servais A, Schomaker J, Bastin C · 2024 · Preprint
Whether exposure to a novel environment in virtual reality improves subsequent verbal memory or not is still debated. The present study aims to replicate previous positive findings. To do so, we assessed whether exploration of a novel…
Zehavi-Dorin T, Kutzscher AE, Badr M et al. · 2026 · Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To compare global peripapillary and perifoveal vessel densities between primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients with the same glaucoma severity using optical coherence tomography angiography…
Guo J, Pratt J, Walther DB · 2025 · Attention, perception & psychophysics
The nature of visual processes underlying scene perception remains a hotly debated topic. According to one view, scene and object perception rely on similar neural mechanisms, and their processing pathways are tightly interlinked.…
Sarsangi P, Mohammadi M, Nadjarzadeh A et al. · 2025 · The British journal of nutrition
There is a lack of information from Middle Eastern countries regarding diet-disease associations. We examined dietary glycaemic and insulinemic potential in relation to risk of incident diabetes among a large group of Iranian adults. The…
James KK, Storm BC · 2025 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Pretesting and posttesting have long been implemented in classrooms as methods of testing and improving learning. Prior research has been mixed on the relative benefits of pretesting versus posttesting, with some studies finding pretesting…
Mitchell WJ, Stasiak J, Martinez S et al. · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
Successful emotion regulation (ER) requires effective strategy selection. Research suggests that disengagement strategies (e.g., distraction) are more often selected than engagement strategies (e.g., reappraisal) as emotional experiences…
Ghanem J, Totzek JF, Henri-Bellemare C et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Psychotic disorders are a class of heterogeneous disorders for which there is evidence of numerous structural and functional brain abnormalities. One proposed neural marker for psychosis is a disruption in white matter, the structural…
Gibbons MBC, Kodkany N, Liow Y et al. · 2026 · Clinical psychology & psychotherapy
Objective To investigate the effectiveness of cognitive therapy (CT) and short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) among patients with greater severity, defined in several ways, in a community mental health setting. Method Using data from a…
Ghanem J, Totzek JF, Henri-Bellemare C et al. · 2025 · Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
Psychotic disorders are heterogeneous disorders for which there is evidence of structural and functional brain abnormalities. The role of white matter integrity, often measured via Fractional Anisotropy (FA), has played a controversial…
Sutton OP, Kious BM · 2025 · AJOB empirical bioethics
Background Some have hypothesized that changing attitudes toward medical aid in dying (MAID) contribute to increased suicide rates, perhaps by increasing interest in dying or the perceived acceptability of suicide. This would represent a…
Hauptman M, Bedny M · 2024 · Preprint
Inferring the causes of illness is a culturally universal example of causal thinking. We tested the hypothesis that implicit causal inferences about biological processes (e.g., illness) depend on the animacy semantic network. Participants…
Dewi NA, Arfan M, Rahmasari H et al. · 2025 · Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To evaluate macular vessel density using clinical parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) without retinopathy. Patients and methods This cross-sectional study enrolled 32 participants (63 eyes) aged 40-60 years…
Fu Y, Mei G · 2024 · Journal of vision
The visual system often undergoes a relatively stable perception even in a noisy visual environment. This crucial function was reflected in a visual perception phenomenon-serial dependence, in which recent stimulus history systematically…
Nicolella V, Novarella F, Falco F et al. · 2025 · Neurology international
Objective We aimed to explore associations between plasma neurofilament light chain (pNfL) and cognition through patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods In this cross-sectional study, we included 211 people…