It definitely happens intentionally and unintentionally in psych literature, certainly the first one. Psych articles report p values over ANOVAs, and they blith

It definitely happens intentionally and unintentionally in psych literature, certainly the first one. Psych articles report p values over ANOVAs, and they blithely assume everything is normally distributed. For one group, there's absolutely no need to poke the sleeping dog. The other group simply has no idea. They shouldn't be doing research, but their training is lacking, and cheap PhDs aren't that easy to come by, so here we are.