What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm..

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members..

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to….

Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing you….

The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing somethin….

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one..

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes..

There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Euro….

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendenci….

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior..

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla..

The problem isn't testosterone and aggression; it's how often we reward aggression. And we do: We give medals to masters of the "right" kinds of aggr….

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do ….

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocr….

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to be….

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what ….

As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulatio….

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action..