Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.