Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

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

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

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