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Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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