The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.