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

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.

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

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

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

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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