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 7 of 9
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rotella A, Sparks AM, Mishra S et al. · 2021 · Preprint
Some evidence suggests that people behave more cooperatively and generously when observed or in the presence of images of eyes (termed the ‘watching eyes’ effect). Eye images are thought to trigger feelings of observation, which in turn…
Kral TR, Davis K, Korponay C et al. · 2021 · Preprint
Studies purporting to show changes in brain structure following the popular, eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course are widely referenced despite major methodological limitations. Here, we present findings from a…
Neff J, Ektnitphong VA, Campos PC et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Host cell metabolic pathways influence innate immune responses to intracellular pathogens, but the contribution of nucleotide metabolism to antimicrobial defense remains incompletely defined. Here, we identify the mitochondrial nucleoside…
Miehrig AH, Foresto RD, Tedesco-Silva H et al. · 2026 · Transplantation
Background Treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) after kidney transplantation aims to achieve cessation of viral replication; however, the use of highly sensitive DNA assays creates uncertainty regarding the optimal DNAemia threshold for…
Wiechert S, de Groot E, Rutjens BT et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Over the past decade, psychology has embraced transparency and reproducibility reforms to address the replication crisis, raising the question of whether these signals help legal decision-makers identify which psychological evidence is…
Jordhani M, Ruci D, Jordhani P et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Background: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug used in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and other autoimmune diseases. Although HCQ reduces SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro at…
Korbmacher M, Myhr KM, Wergeland S et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in neurology
Objective To replicate and extend recent findings, suggesting that higher serum alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) levels are associated with reduced disease activity and progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods We reanalysed clinical trial…
Kopatz M, Wagner W, Neuendorf C et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Class composition is a key contextual factor in students’ academic development. Prior research has mainly focused on class mean achievement, yet less is known about other composition characteristics, possible differences for students with…
Nicholas M, Ianssen M, Costa D et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Purpose Psychosocial factors have been identified as risks for delayed recovery after work injuries but results from interventions for high-risk cases have been mixed. An earlier Australian study that matched care to assessed…
Koh A · 2025 · Preprint
Duplication and segregation of genetic material are vital for cell proliferation. Deletion of DNA replication regulators, such as YabA and ParA, leads to over initiation of DNA replication. However, the viability of the ΔyabA ΔparA double…
Samuel Pawel, Rachel Heyard, Charlotte Micheloud et al. · 2023 · arXiv
In several large-scale replication projects, statistically non-significant results in both the original and the replication study have been interpreted as a "replication success". Here we discuss the logical problems with this approach: Non-significance in both studies does not ensure that the studies provide evidence for the absence of an effect and "replication success" can virtually always be achieved if the sample sizes are small enough. In addition, the relevant error rates are not controlled. We show how methods, such as equivalence testing and Bayes factors, can be used to adequately qu
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Buchanan EM et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Buchanan EM et al. · 2023 · Preprint
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774)…
Pawel S, Heyard R, Micheloud C et al. · 2024 · eLife
In several large-scale replication projects, statistically non-significant results in both the original and the replication study have been interpreted as a 'replication success.' Here, we discuss the logical problems with this approach:…
Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2023 · Preprint
The present study presents results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al.’s (2010) findings from Experiment 1 conducted by 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774) investigating if pro-environmental…
Bolterstein E, Mungre S, Nuss K et al. · 2025 · microPublication biology
WRNexo and Blm , Drosophila orthologs of human WRN and BLM RecQ helicases, play crucial roles in DNA replication and repair. Using a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in an introductory Biology course, we investigated…
Goodwin I, Larsen KM, Sangchooli A et al. · 2025 · Preprint
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.…
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.…
Barresi G, Viana KMP, Hermansen TK et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Peer action coordination in middle childhood is thought to benefit from socio-cognitive abilities such as emotion understanding and inhibitory control, but empirical evidence for their role is limited. This study replicates and extends a…
Conwell SC, Dahmen SN, Cranford MT et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Replication fork collapse at single-strand DNA breaks (SSBs) poses a serious threat to genome stability. Using Xenopus egg extracts, we show that a replication fork encountering an SSB on either the leading- or lagging-strand template…
Gao Y, Hsu V, Kil A et al. · 2026 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Context Previous animal studies show association between osteocalcin (OC) and type 2 diabetes-related quantitative traits (QTs), with some suggesting these effects being mediated by adipokines. Replication in humans has been inconsistent.…
Boscariol R, Tressoldi P · 2026 · Preprint
This preregistered study is a replication and extension of prior exploratory work comparing an Intuition Market (IM) with a traditional Prediction Market (PM) in forecasting binary financial outcomes. A previous exploratory study suggested…