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Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
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.
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.
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.
Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
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.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
I much prefer the modern world.
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
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