Top 29 Quotes by Keith Henson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I much prefer the modern world.