Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst — Quotes
Imported from: Clippings/Sapolsky-Behave.md
Notes built from this: childhood-adversity-and-the-brain, collectivist-vs-individualist, cooperation-game-theory, dopamine-and-anticipation, dual-process-cognition, free-will-and-moral-responsibility, genes-are-not-destiny, in-group-out-group, narrative-bias, oxytocin, sapolsky-behave-part-1, stress-and-cognition, trust, violence-and-the-long-peace
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky Source: Goodreads
20 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Book page: sapolsky-behave-part-1
- “You don’t have to choose between being scientific…”
- “The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But…”
- “Why should people in one part of the…”
- “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards…”
- “In other words, the default state is to…”
- “Ultimately, forgiveness is usually about one thing—“This is…”
- “If we accept that there will always be…”
- “Second, nothing about adolescence can be understood outside…”
- “If you’re stressed like a normal mammal in…”
- “Pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing…”
- “Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic…”
- “Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral…”
- “A remarkably consistent finding, starting with elementary school…”
- “Remarkably, studies have examined brains of transgender individuals…”
- “Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now…”
- “We love stress that is mild and transient…”
- “When it comes to empathy and compassion, rich…”
- “How’s this for fascinating: Heritability of various aspects…”
- “Testosterone has far less to do with aggression…”
- “This leads to a thoroughly fascinating finding—social conservatives…”