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Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for a human.
- Robert Sapolsky
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Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.
- Robert Sapolsky
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The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.
- Robert Sapolsky
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What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.
- Robert Sapolsky
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That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.
- Robert Sapolsky
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I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a major neighborhood specializing in that, in Brooklyn. And somewhere when I was about 14, something changed. And that change probably involved updating every molecule in my body, in that I sort of realized: this is nonsense, there's no God, there's no free will, there is no purpose.
- Robert Sapolsky
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We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.
- Robert Sapolsky
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One definitely wants to have a functioning hippocampus. It's all about learning and memory, the part blown out of the water by Alzheimer's disease. It's also the part that is most vulnerable to the effects of stress.
- Robert Sapolsky
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#Memory
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As for testosterone, it's gotten a bum rap. Yes, it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn't cause aggression as much as sensitizes you to the environmental triggers of aggression.
- Robert Sapolsky
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Regardless of your sex, if you have elevated testosterone levels in your blood, you're more likely to think a face with a neutral expression is instead looking threatening.
- Robert Sapolsky
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When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.
- Robert Sapolsky
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Depression is incredibly pervasive and thus important to talk about.
- Robert Sapolsky
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Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.
- Robert Sapolsky
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But I like schlocky violent movies, but I'm for strict gun control. But then there was a time I was at a laser tag place, and I had such a good time hiding in a corner shooting at people. In other words, I'm your basic confused human when it comes to violence.
- Robert Sapolsky
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The first roller coaster I ever went on in my life wasn't until college.
- Robert Sapolsky
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#My Life
#Roller Coaster
When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.
- Robert Sapolsky
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We like our individuality, we like the mysteriousness of us, the essentialism of us, and it can be alarming to see the biological gears turning underneath.
- Robert Sapolsky
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For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.
- Robert Sapolsky
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An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.
- Robert Sapolsky
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Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.
- Robert Sapolsky
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If you're a baboon on the Serengeti, and you're miserable, it's almost certainly because some other baboon has had the free time and energy to devote to making you miserable.
- Robert Sapolsky
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Do I get grief for the fact that in communicating, say, about the baboons I'm doing so much anthropomorphizing? One hopes that the parts that are blatantly ridiculous will be perceived as such. I've nonetheless been stunned by some of my more humorless colleagues - to see that they were not capable of recognizing that.
- Robert Sapolsky
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As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is - when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.
- Robert Sapolsky
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#Environmental
#New
#Stress
We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion.
- Robert Sapolsky
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