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Psychology & Behavioral Science

132 discoveries published so far

October 14, 2026 The better the study, the smaller the acetaminophen link A new analysis in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, led by Hoda Tayebi-Hillali at the University of Santiago de Compostela, finds little evidence that acetaminophen taken in pregnancy causes autism or ADHD in children.
October 12, 2026 Paying attention to a skin reaction made the swelling smaller Researchers at Bar-Ilan University used histamine to provoke a standard skin reaction: a droplet on the skin, a small prick, and a raised bump called a wheal with a patch of redness around it called a flare.
October 11, 2026 Screen time did not predict problems in most Scottish children Fiona McQuaid and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh analyzed the Growing Up in Scotland study, which followed children born in 2005 and 2006, with 3,786 children at age 5, 3,126 at age 10 and 2,598 at age 15.
October 10, 2026 Chimpanzees steal less from their friends UC Berkeley researchers spent more than 800 hours watching 26 chimpanzees at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda, noting who groomed whom, who spent time together, and who stayed within arm's reach.
September 30, 2026 The brain starts from two sets of cells, not one Since 1952, the prevailing model has traced the whole brain to one shared pool of early cells, an idea from the Dutch scientist Pieter Nieuwkoop.
September 28, 2026 Opening up makes people more likable, anxiety or not Researchers at the University of Bucharest had 136 people rate four university speakers, two with diagnosed social anxiety and two without, across four stages: a photo, small talk, a shared happy memory, and a deeper personal disclosure.

Progress like this happens every day.