People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

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

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

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

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

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