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

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

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

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.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

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