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

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

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

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

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.

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.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.