A study of 41 young adults aged 18 to 30, led by psychiatrist Robert C. Wolf at Heidelberg University in Germany and published in Computers in Human Behavior, found that the 23 participants classified…
A preprint study led by Santiago Grandas, head of psychological research at QOVES, found that GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok reproduce the rank order of human facial-attractiveness ratings more closely…
Psilocin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, rapidly promotes the growth of neural connections in laboratory settings at a level comparable to established psychiatric drugs like ketamine and lith…
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by MIT neuroscientists, including Hope Kean and Evelina Fedorenko, found that logical reasoning operates independently of the b…
A study in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans found that AI chatbots can conduct basic therapeutic conversations but struggle to consistently apply specific treatment techniques. Researche…
Advanced AI models from the GPT, Claude, and Llama families spontaneously conform to the majority opinion, with GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 Opus achieving 100 percent consensus in experiments published i…
An analysis of Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study data found that children with ADHD showed reduced glial cellularity in 20 white matter tracts at age 9 and reduced axonal organization i…
College students who copy answers from artificial intelligence tools without verifying the information experience declines in their ability to learn independently, according to a study by Hui Zhao and…
A study published in Science on May 16, 2025, found that carbohydrates contributed more than half of hominin energy requirements over four million years of evolution, challenging the notion that meat …
A study of 191 German preschoolers found that by age 4, 90% could select evidence refuting a false causal claim, and about half could provide valid verbal counterarguments, rising to 70% by age 5.5. T…
A study published in Translational Psychiatry found that early changes in symptom scores after a single 20-milligram dose of methylphenidate accurately forecast long-term medication success in adults …
A study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that people trust health advice from human nurses more than from AI, but the intuitiveness of the advice matters more than the sourc…
A study published in iScience found that dogs' brains can distinguish between specific negative human facial expressions, not just positive versus negative emotions. Researchers at Eötvös Loránd Unive…
A large developmental study of 11,119 UK children found that only 16% of those scoring above 115 on cognitive tests at age 7 maintained high scores by age 16, indicating early giftedness rarely persis…
A study published in NeuroImage found that childhood trauma is linked to chronic procrastination in adulthood, with brain imaging of 1,189 undergraduate students at Southwest University in China revea…
A study in the Journal of Affective Disorders using data from 21,424 UK Biobank participants found that cognitive performance explains roughly 20-25% of the association between anxiety/depression and …
A study published in Telematics and Informatics Reports found that fear of missing out on artificial intelligence is linked to higher levels of depression and anxiety. Chi-Lin Yu, a psychology researc…
A study published in Communications Biology found that international adoptees who were exposed to Mandarin before age two but then spoke only French retained brain structure resembling native tonal la…
A study published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology found that six months of playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for one hour a day, five days a week, improved visual attention and…
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Itay and Beyond grew brain organoids from cells of 15 human participants and found that different types of autism spectrum disorder produce distin…