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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.