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

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.

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.

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.

We have all experience times of despair and fear. But it is better to live with hope and faith.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.

When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.