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

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.

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.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

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

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

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.