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" Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. "
Brain
Long
Success
" 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. "
Feeling
Attention
Giving
" As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president. "
More
I Am
Kind
" Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins. "
Measure
Attention
Because
" Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. "
Had
Women
Over
" Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. "
Learn
Children
Places
" Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? "
Skin
Colour
Stuck
" Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now. "
Capture
Problem
Cult
" Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. "
Afghanistan
Military
Result
" Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies. "
World
Friends
Serious
" Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment. "
Environment
Today
Success
" 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. "
Fighting
Short
Good
" Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. "
France
Off
Iceland
" High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. "
High
Environment
Opportunities
" Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status. "
Status
Humans
Sensitive
" I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian. "
Think
Up
Who
" If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. "
Why
Doing
Flying
" I much prefer the modern world. "
Modern
World
Modern World
" I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved. "
Environment
Problems
Today
" Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families. "
Children
Small
Lie
" Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. "
Place
Suicide
Half
" People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. "
Family
People
Thinking
" People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. "
People
Over
Brains
" Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. "
Play
Games
Without
" 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. "
Family
Stay
People
" Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. "
Attention
Successful
Interaction
" The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards. "
Exclusive
Brain
Sources
" The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. "
Person
Animals
Information
" The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. "
New
Person
Intelligence
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