The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantag….

I much prefer the modern world..

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors..

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of att….

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error..

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment..

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies..

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing ….

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families..

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as presi….

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family..

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives..

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to….

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen..

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and end….

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind..

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying a….

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the ….

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than….

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies..