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.
19878 results in Negative / Null Result Report · page 473 of 663
Remmers, Sebastiaan; id_orcid, Pecher, Diane, Zeelenberg, René et al. · 2020
The actions associated with objects are thought to be automatically activated when processing object names. Recent studies, however, have failed to find evidence for a role of the motor system in long-term memory for objects. One exception…
Knight, Barryauthor.
Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find…
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R. (René), Pecher, D. (Diane) et al. · 2003
Previous studies have failed to find evidence for long-term cross-language repetition priming (e.g., presentation of the English word frog does not facilitate responding to its Dutch translation equivalent kikker on a later presentation).…
Maurizio Guerra (1268337), Angelo Alberti (2426320), Serge Masson (2426323) et al. · 2016
The direct EPR detection of thioacyl radicals has been reported only once, while thioacyl nitroxides remain an elusive species. We failed to detect the thioacyl radicals from two thioaldehydes and from phosphoryldithioformates but have…
Chowdhury, Khorshed
In this paper we have examined the issue of convergence of per capita GDP across 7 South Asian countries during 1960-2000 using World Bank data. Empirical results failed to find evidence of s convergence, b convergence and conditional b…
Juan Olvido Perea-García, Monteiro, Antonia, Perea Garcia, J.O. et al. · 2021
Comparative examinations of external eye morphology in primates initially focused on communicative functions of the eye. Subsequent work has failed to find consistent associations between specific eye morphologies and communicative…
Jeffrey Saunders, Ho Ming Chan · 2021
This study examines the effect of affective state on two attentional measures: attentional blink and attentional breadth. It is a follow-up to our previous study that failed to replicate some observed effects. The preregistration to our…
Deffuant, Guillaume, Amblard, Frédéric, Faure, Thierry et al. · 2013
Meadows and Cliff (2012) failed to replicate the results of Deffuant et al. (2002) and concluded that our paper was wrong. In this note, we show that the conclusions of Meadows and Cliff are due to a wrong computation of indicator y, which…
Masanori Kobayashi, Yasunori Kinosada · 2022
This study try replicate that value enhances associative memory when the binding of item features is optimized. Although our experiment 1 (online) failed to replicate previous findings, it is possible that learning instruction is difficult…
Leigh Ann Vaughn, Christopher R. Chartier, Donald Sacco et al. · 2021
Many Labs 3 (Ebersole et al., 2016) failed to replicate a classic finding from the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion (Cacioppo, Petty, & Morris, 1983; Study 1). Petty and Cacioppo (2016) noted possible limitations of the Many Labs…
Line, Marsha J., Christopher R. Chartier, Ebersole, Charles R. et al. · 2016
Many Labs 3 (Ebersole et al., 2016) failed to replicate a classic finding from the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion (Cacioppo, Petty, & Morris, 1983; Study 1). Petty and Cacioppo (2016) noted possible limitations of the Many Labs…
Leigh Ann Vaughn, Christopher R. Chartier, Mitch Brown et al. · 2016
Many Labs 3 (Ebersole et al., 2016) failed to replicate a classic finding from the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion (Cacioppo, Petty, & Morris, 1983; Study 1). Petty and Cacioppo (2016) noted possible limitations of the Many Labs…
Ross, Josephine; id_orcid · 2022
Do children and adults engage in spontaneous Theory of Mind (ToM)? Accumulating evidence from anticipatory looking (AL) studies suggests that they do. But a growing body of studies failed to replicate these original findings. This paper…
Perret, Martine, Landes, Julie, Hardy, Isablle et al.
The survival cost of reproduction has been revealed in many free-ranging vertebrates. However, recent studies on captive populations failed to detect this cost. Theoretically, this lack of survival/reproduction trade-off is expected when…
Perret, Martine, Henry, Pierre‐yves, Hardy, Isabelle et al. · 2019
International audienceThe survival cost of reproduction has been revealed in many free‐ranging vertebrates. However, recent studies on captive populations failed to detect this cost. Theoretically, this lack of survival/reproduction…
Galtier, Pierre, Dubroca, Jacqueline, Mougin, Christian et al. · 2003
International audienceWe investigated the fate of the drug ivermectin in the soil. We found that ivermectin was transformed solely by photos, leading to the formation of two ivermectin isomers. We indeed failed to detect any…
Nishida, Akira, ニシダ, アキラ, 西田, 晃
The Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect evidence for the wind of luminiferous aether. However, the fact that light propagates without affecting aether wind on the rotating earth means that the medium is also rotating with us. For…
Ling, Siew-Eng, Liew, Venus Khim-Sen, Lau, Sie-Hoe
This study shows that augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test failed to detect covariance nonstationary series. Supportive of Ahamada (2004), this study finds that the cumulative sums of squares procedure in Inclán and Tiao (1994) is useful to…
Junpei Wang (776880), Jian Tu (490588), Jichun Yang (458427) et al. · 2015
“Not detected” means microarrays failed to detect the significant signals of LncRNAs in mouse livers. Detailed information of dysregulated plasma LncRNAs was summarized in S2 and S3 Tables. The detailed information of liver LncRNAs had…
Nishida, Akira, ニシダ, アキラ, 西田, 晃
The Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect evidence for the wind of luminiferous aether. However, the fact that light propagates without affecting aether wind on the rotating earth means that the medium is also rotating with us. For…
Bär, Diego, Julian Cooper, Alan Tyndall et al. · 2009
We report a patient who presented with inflammatory back pain due to multisegmental spondylitis. Following a vertebral biopsy which failed to detect an infectious organism, the patient was treated with etanercept, a tumor necrosis factor…
I. G. Rusakov, R. V. Ulianov, E. V. Filonenko et al. · 2015
The main challenge of treating non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is multifocal tumors. Current methods of diagnosis are failed to detect all superficial flat tumor lesions in bladder mucosa. The use of fluorescence imaging with…
Piralla A., BALDANTI, FAUSTO, MINOLI, LORENZO et al. · 2012
XMRV and polytropic MLV-related virus have been controversially associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Subsequent reports failed to detect XMRV and MLV-related virus in CFS patients, and the previous results have been interpreted…
N. Stocchetti · 2014
Aggressive therapy after traumatic brain injury, for instance surgical decompression of the skull, is effective in reducing intracranial pressure. However in a randomized trial it has failed to improve outcome. Careful identification of…
Dr. Abu Elias Sarker, Dr. Mohammad Habibur Rahman · 2014
In spite of different approaches being experimented over the past six decades, poverty alleviation programs in the developing world have largely failed to improve poverty situation. Of all the factors responsible for the growing trend of…
· 2022 · The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update
The antimuscarinic agent scopolamine did not demonstrate antidepressant effects in a randomized trial that used an active placebo comparator and involved 40 patients with major depressive disorder. Researchers stopped the trial for…
Julianna Rugor (548251), Lukasz Przybyl (548252), Ralf Dechend (252651) et al. · 2014
Masson trichrome staining of kidney sections (A) showed increased matrix deposition in vehicle-treated dTGR. Relaxin did not reduce matrix formation in the kidney (representative images). The upper panel shows a higher magnification. (B)…
Sharafuddin, Melhem, Katz, Daniel, Reddy, Geeta et al. · 2005
Monthly access flow monitoring with increased prophylactic angioplasty did not improve fistula patency.BackgroundRegular access monitoring is recommended to detect and treat access stenosis in order to prevent access thrombosis and…
Anna Kramvis (304621), Neil A. Martinson (198606), Trevor G. Bell (304619) et al. · 2013
“n” indicates the number of participants in each group. ALT and CD4 cell counts for each group are indicated in the table below the plot as “Median (Interquartile Range)”. Viral loads and CD4 cell counts did not differ significantly…
Oates, David, David Oates · 1976
The concentration of lead in fish muscle tissue from lakes where boating is heavy and where it is prohibited was measured. The lead levels ranged from less than 0.05 to 1.35 ppm but did not differ significantly between those in the…