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

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

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

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fa….

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses..

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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….

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

I much prefer the modern world..

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 ….

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….

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