Quotes from Keith Henson

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

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.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

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

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.

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.

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

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

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.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.