People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
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
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
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
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
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. - Keith Henson
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. - Keith Henson
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
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
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…
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
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…
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
Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than…
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. - Keith Henson
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
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