I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

the mind is a neural computer

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.