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

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

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

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

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

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.

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

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

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

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.