Scientist

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

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

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.

I much prefer the modern world.

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

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

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

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

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.