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.

- Keith Henson

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

- Keith Henson

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

- Keith Henson

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

- Keith Henson

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

- Keith Henson

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…

- Keith Henson

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…

- Keith Henson

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

- Keith Henson

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

- Keith Henson