Negative / Null Result Report
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…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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.…
View details →DOI: 10.1177/09567976251335567 Negative / Null Result Report
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…
View details →DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/d3x9p_v1 Negative / Null Result Report
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4819708/v1 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
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.…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2024.111825 Negative / Null Result Report
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…
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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…
View details →DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14484 Negative / Null Result Report
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…
View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3192523/v1 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
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,…
View details →DOI: 10.3758/s13414-023-02765-7 Negative / Null Result Report
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…
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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…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101834 Negative / Null Result Report
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…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.13.532362 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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,…
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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…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107778 Negative / Null Result Report
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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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,…
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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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Burris JL, Reider LB, Oleas DS et al. · 2024 · Acta psychologica
Researchers have proposed that humans have evolved psychological mechanisms that facilitate the detection, rapid response, and subsequent avoidance of potential threats. However, some inconsistent results in the literature have called into…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104612 Negative / Null Result Report
Chandrashekar SP, Adelina N, Zeng S et al. · 2022 · Preprint
People tend to stick with a default option instead of switching to another option. For instance, Johnson and Goldstein (2003) found a default effect in an organ donation scenario: if organ donation is the default option, people are more…
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Crawford J · 2020 · Preprint
Waytz, Dungan, and Young (2013) conducted four studies to test the hypothesis that valuing fairness over loyalty is more strongly associated with willingness to blow the whistle on transgressors than valuing loyalty over fairness. We…
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Ma Y, Baker DJ, Vukovics K et al. · 2021 · Preprint
What factors affect listeners’ emotional perception of music? Ali and Peynircioğlu (2006) conducted a series of experiments on the listener's emotional response to melodies and lyrics in songs. Here we present a pre-registered replication…
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