We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather buy some useless, shiny gee-gaw.

Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.