Keith Henson Quotes

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

Less, Skin, Stuck

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
Keith Henson

Family, Children, Losing

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

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
Keith Henson

Change, Family, Death

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
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Success, Today, Evolution

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
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Changes, Sensitive, Status

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.
Keith Henson

Good, Best, Yourself

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.
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Place, Growth, Wealth

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.
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Success, Hours, Brains

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
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Family, Alcohol, Making

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
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Success, Long, Brain

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.
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Feeling, Giving, After

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
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Women, Children, Young

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
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Children, Learn, Dangerous

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

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
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Friends, Small, Serious

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
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Enough, Anyone, Psychology

I much prefer the modern world.
Keith Henson

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
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Experience, Why, Anyone

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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Family, Learning, Children

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
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Play, Social, Games

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

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
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Brain, Rewards, Exclusive

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

Leadership, Someone, Else

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

Brain, Attention, Social

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: 1942

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