High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

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

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

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.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

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.

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