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.
- Keith Henson Quote

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.
- Keith Henson Quote

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.
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Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
- Keith Henson Quote

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

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.
- Keith Henson Quote

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

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.
- Keith Henson Quote

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
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Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
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I much prefer the modern world.
- Keith Henson Quote

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.
- Keith Henson Quote

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
- Keith Henson Quote

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
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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.
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Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
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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.
- Keith Henson Quote

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.
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