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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.
- Keith Henson
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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
- Keith Henson
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Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
- Keith Henson
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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.
- Keith Henson
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If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
- Keith Henson
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
- Keith Henson
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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.
- Keith Henson
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I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
- Keith Henson
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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.
- Keith Henson
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Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
- Keith Henson
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Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
- Keith Henson
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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.
- Keith Henson
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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
- Keith Henson
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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 be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
- Keith Henson
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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.
- Keith Henson
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