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.

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

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

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

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

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