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

Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.

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

The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.

We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.

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