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.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

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

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

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.

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

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.