Those things were known before psychology named, published, and formalized them. They were just called "common sense" and presented alongside a number of compet

Those things were known before psychology named, published, and formalized them. They were just called "common sense" and presented alongside a number of competing ideas. Buddhism is no different in this regard: everything it gets right is not known to be right until someone uses a reliable process to verify it. Until then, there is little reason to accept it as a known truth.