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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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..

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them..

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success..

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience..

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..

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

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

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….