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.

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

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

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.

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

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

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.