Top 29 Quotes by Keith Henson

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.

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.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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