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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Liu Y, Olivers C, Van Lange PAM · 2024 · Cognition & emotion
How may feelings of love and hate impact people's attention? We used a modified Attentional Blink (AB) task in which 300 participants were asked to categorise a name representing a person towards whom they felt either hate, love, or…
Sheena-Peer L, Rafaeli E, Berenson KR et al. · 2025 · Personality disorders
Emptiness is central to borderline personality disorder (BPD), significantly impacts quality of life, and is associated with increased impulsivity. Nevertheless, studies of emptiness in daily life are scarce and little is known about…
O'Donoghue AC, Aikin KJ, Amoozegar JB et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
Purpose Exhibit hall booths at medical conferences are a key avenue for promoting prescription drugs to health care providers (HCPs). Because HCPs spend considerable time interacting with industry representatives at conferences, we…
Clark D, Kikut-Stein A, Jesch E et al. · 2024 · Journal of health communication
Public health communication campaign planners must carefully consider whether misinformation beliefs are important to target and, ideally, correct. Guided by the reasoned action approach, we hypothesized that behavior-specific beliefs…
Mountain RV, Peters RL, Langlais AL et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Social isolation stress has numerous known negative health effects, including increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, as well as overall mortality. The impacts of social isolation on skeletal health, however, have not been…
Grunewald K, Andrews JL, Schweizer S · 2026 · Child development
Little is known about how social network associations are tracked in cognition during adolescence, when social networks change in size and complexity. In 2023, 123 ethnically diverse adolescents and emerging adults (13-24 years; 52.9%…
Rogers CW, Crisp A, Wilhite K et al. · 2026 · The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association
Background Physical activity (PA) during pregnancy has well-documented benefits, yet pregnant rural residents may face additional barriers to PA. Objective To examine whether leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and correlates of LTPA,…
Seetahul Y, Greitemeyer T · 2024 · Preprint
Objective: With two experiments (N = 1,576), we examine the causal effect of frustration on the immediate inclination to play violent video games (VVGs) and the moderating role of long-term VVG exposure. Method: Frustration was…
Taherzadeh Z, Kissell CE, Young BE et al. · 2025 · American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology
Non-Hispanic Black (BL) adults living in the United States are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with their non-Hispanic White (WH) counterparts. Although measures of cardiac autonomic function [i.e., spontaneous…
Seetahul Y, Greitemeyer T · 2024 · Preprint
Objective: With two experiments (N = 1,576), we examine the causal effect of frustration on the immediate inclination to play violent video games (VVGs) and the moderating role of long-term VVG exposure. Method: Frustration was…
Iwabuchi T, Hirai T, Umeda N et al. · 2025 · Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
Recent studies have implicated oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Postmortem brain studies have revealed decreased levels of the reduced form of glutathione (GSH), an important antioxidant, in some…
Meyer A, Stelloh C, Zhu N et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Objective: As cohesin mutations are rarely found in MLL-rearranged acute myeloid leukemias, we investigated the potential synthetic lethality between cohesin mutations and MLL-AF9 using murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.…
Barnett SE, Shade A · 2024 · Ecology letters
Long-term (press) disturbances like the climate crisis and other anthropogenic pressures are fundamentally altering ecosystems and their functions. Many critical ecosystem functions, such as biogeochemical cycling, are facilitated by…
Goodwin I, Larsen KM, Sangchooli A et al. · 2025 · Human brain mapping
Structural deficits in white matter fibre have been linked to psychosis. However, it remains unclear whether these aberrations are present in individuals that experience non-clinical psychotic-like experiences, predating illness onset.…
Quirin M, Malekzad F, Jais M et al. · 2024 · Acta psychologica
Studies have shown that Trait Emotional Awareness (TEA) - the ability to recognize one's emotions - and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) are both negatively associated with psychological disorders. Although these studies imply that TEA is…
Wollenman CC, Davis PJ, Lane GC et al. · 2024 · Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery
Background Overhead athletes are particularly susceptible to elbow valgus extension overload syndrome and development of pathologic changes in the posteromedial elbow. Though arthroscopic débridement/osteophyte resection is frequently…
Lewis MN, Feola N, Watson K et al. · 2025 · PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.)
Introduction Poster displays are commonly used to present scholarly activity. Most current research evaluates posters' visual appeal. Isolated studies looking at knowledge transfer have evaluated standalone posters. The innovation of…
Foster K, Anholm JD, Foster G et al. · 2025 · High altitude medicine & biology
Foster, Katharine, James D. Anholm, Gary Foster, Suman Thapamagar, and Prajan Subedi. Effects of naltrexone on sleep quality and periodic breathing at high altitude. High Alt Med Biol. 26:13-19, 2025. Objective: This study examined the…
Curtis JA, Beam AB, Nam J et al. · 2025 · Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)
Introduction Breath-holding maneuvers are frequently used to improve airway closure and swallowing safety in people with dysphagia. While their effects on airway closure have been studied in healthy adults, little is known about their…
Shirzad A, Frewen N, Morava A et al. · 2026 · PloS one
Mental fatigue negatively affects the productivity and health of the general population. Mental fatigue manifests following sustained mental activity and is defined by subjective feelings of inhibition and objective decrements in mental…
Bakken K, Horton C, Fisher M et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Human corticospinal excitability modulates during movement, when muscles are active, but also at rest, when muscles are not active. These changes in resting motor system excitability can be transient or longer lasting. Evidence from…
Wang J, Fu H, Feng X et al. · 2025 · PloS one
In this study, we explored whether nightmare distress mediated the correlation between autobiographical memory specificity and depression. 112 participants provided their most recent dreams that happened within one month, and finished some…
Habersack A, Kruse A, Guggenberger B et al. · 2026 · Children (Basel, Switzerland)
Background/Objectives: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often develop altered muscle architecture and calf muscle contractures. Orthotic immobilization aims to provide prolonged stretch to lengthen the muscle belly and muscle-tendon unit…
LaRosa SK, Stone XA, Fenninger AA et al. · 2024 · The American surgeon
Background Arriving during "off hours" to the hospital can put patients at greater risk of complications or mortality given lesser staff. Our goal was to investigate this in trauma patients with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) of >15. We…
Doyle H, Yewbrey R, Kornysheva K et al. · 2025 · Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Humans complete different types of sequences as a part of everyday life. These sequences can be divided into two important categories: those that are abstract, in which the steps unfold according to a rule at super-second to minute time…
Monteiro M, Azeiteiro UM, Queiroga H · 2024 · Marine environmental research
Extreme climatic events like marine heatwaves (MHWs) are becoming more frequent, intense, and longer lasting all around the world. The consequences of these anomalously warm periods are devastating for marine ecosystems. Still, little is…
Viegas LM, Bermeitinger C, Greve W · 2026 · Journal of aging research
Background and objectives Retirement represents a critical life change and is accompanied by the blocking of professional goals. We assume that the individual capability to adapt goals to changed conditions has a palliative effect on…
McKay NJ, Horvatits EJ, Jean M et al. · 2024 · Physiology & behavior
It is well known that a large portion of the population elevates their intake of high energy-dense foods during times of stress; however, it is understudied whether stress affects the reinforcing value of a food reward. Further knowledge…
Özdemir M, Çeber Turfan E, Keskin HL · 2025 · PloS one
The goal was to investigate the effects of synthetic oxytocin administration during labor on maternal and neonatal serum oxytocin levels, early breastfeeding attitudes, and postpartum maternal attachment immediately after birth. This…
Rosenberg AJ, Young BE, Fernandez A et al. · 2025 · Physiological reports
Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) describes the phenomenon through which the restoration of blood flow following prolonged ischemia exacerbates tissue damage during reperfusion. IRI can be modeled by inducing 20-min arm ischemia followed…