36 Quotes by Keith Henson

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.

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.

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.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

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.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

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.