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.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

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

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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

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