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.
243 results in Negative / Null Result Report for "replication" · page 6 of 9
Jajcay N, Tomeček D, Fajnerová I et al. · 2026 · Preprint
An increasing number of studies are currently focusing on ‘personality neuroscience’, a term denoting the research aimed at neuroimaging correlates of inter-individual temperament and character variability. Among other methods, a graph…
Chandran S, Vinjé J, Huynh K et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Human intestinal enteroids (HIE) and zebrafish larvae (ZF) models support the replication of certain strains of human norovirus (HuNoV), the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis worldwide. The replication of 17 HuNoV (9 genotypes)…
Dhanda N, Ziano I, Ching KH et al. · 2025 · Personality & social psychology bulletin
This article presents preregistered replications of three influential studies in the field of escalation of commitment and regret aversion. In Study 1, we found partial support for Staw's (1976) article on the effects of personal…
Pachunka A, Jeffries JB, Karr L et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Interacting with animals can improve health and well-being across the lifespan. Some programs such as 4-H and FFA center around youth interacting with animals, potentially enhancing youth development. Mueller (2014) investigated whether…
Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the second study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could foster resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories without significantly…
Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the first study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could stimulate resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. However, a gap was…
Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the first study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could stimulate resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. However, a gap was…
Evans ND, Fetterman AK · 2026 · Public understanding of science (Bristol, England)
Admitting that one's research findings are wrong involves admitting a potential instance of incompetence, which can keep scientists from engaging in wrongness admission. However, wrongness admission can yield favorable perceptions. In five…
Meier M, Gurri L, Beck K et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Childhood maltreatment (CM) has long-lasting effects on physical and mental health with CM type specific effects being reported. Epigenetic processes, like deoxyribonucleic acid methylation (DNAm), might mediate this link, and CM types…
Walleczek J, von Stillfried N, Schmidt S et al. · 2025 · Preprint
This metascientific project studied the replicability of Bem Experiment 1, which had claimed a precognitive effect, i.e., the ability to successfully guess the outcome of future random events (Bem. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011;100: 407-25).…
Willroth EC, Young G, Ford BQ et al. · 2025 · Psychological science
Certain emotion-regulation strategies (e.g., reappraisal) are associated with better well-being and are therefore seen as adaptive (health-promoting) strategies. However, it is unlikely that any strategy is adaptive regardless of context.…
Adinugroho I, Bentall R, Stafford T · 2025 · Preprint
This is the first study to attempt replication of Banas et al (2023) on inoculation messages. The original experiment demonstrated that inoculation messages could stimulate resistance to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. However, a gap was…
Stawiany K, Kozak K, Sokołowska Z · 2025 · Preprint
The study explores the hypothesis that individuals show greater sympathy towards coherent name-face pairs compared to incoherent pairs, replicating the effect observed by Barton and Halberstadt. A structured questionnaire was designed…
Pachunka A, Jeffries JB, Karr L et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Interacting with animals can improve health and well-being across the lifespan. Some programs such as 4-H and FFA center around youth interacting with animals, potentially enhancing youth development. Mueller (2014) investigated whether…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Morriss J, Lee CE, Wood A et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Background and Objectives: Attentional biases to negative information are often observed in emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression. Recently, Fergus et al. (2013) demonstrated that participants scoring high in Intolerance of…
Beckner AG, Voss AT, Phillips L et al. · 2023 · Infant behavior & development
Two experiments were conducted to examine mental rotation in 6- to 12-month-old infants (N = 166) using a change detection task. These experiments were replications of Lauer and Lourenco (Lauer et al., 2015; Lauer & Lourenco, 2016), using…
Lucchi F, Lloyd B, Nieuwenhuis S · 2023 · Preprint
Background 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 [1] provided novel evidence for this process in…
Ashburn-Nardo L, Moss-Racusin CA, Smith JL et al. · 2022 · Frontiers in psychology
The reproducibility movement in psychology has resulted in numerous highly publicized instances of replication failures. The goal of the present work was to investigate people's reactions to a psychology replication failure vs. success,…
Galvin HR, Boffo M, Snippe L et al. · 2023 · Addictive behaviors
Evidence for approach bias tendencies to underly automatic behavioural impulses towards seeking out gambling activities in the presence of appetitive salient cues was first shown by Boffo et al. (2018) in a Dutch sample. Relative to…
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…
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…