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Book: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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  1. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    If you have to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be "it's complicated."
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  2. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.
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    The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference." The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways, as we'll see.
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    The cognitive capacities of near-term fetuses are even more remarkable. For example, fetuses can distinguish between two pairs of nonsense syllables {"biba" versus "babi"}. How do you know? Get this-Mom says "Biba, biba, biba" repeatedly while fetal heart rate is monitored. "Boring {or perhaps lulling}," thinks the fetus, and heart rate slows. Then Mom switches to "babi." If the fetus doesn't distinguish between the two, heart rate deceleration continues. But if the difference is noted-"Whoa, what happened?"-heart rate increases. Which is what DeCasper reported.61
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    If they're told, "The drug has a 95 percent survival rate," people, including doctors, are more likely to approve it than when told, "The drug has a 5 percent death rate.
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    And behavior is altered by "situational labels"-call the game the "Wall Street Game," and people become less cooperative. Calling it the "Community Game" does the opposite.
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    when the frontal cortex labors hard on some cognitive task, immediately afterward individuals are more aggressive and less empathic, charitable, and honest.
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    In other words, pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.27
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    If people around you smell scared, your brain tilts toward concluding that you are too.
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  10. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    The human olfactory system is atrophied; roughly 40 percent of a rat's brain is devoted to olfactory processing, versus 3 percent in us.
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    The shape of women's faces changes subtly during their ovulatory cycle, and men prefer female faces at the time of ovulation.
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  12. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    It is the ambiguity of violence, that we can pull a trigger as an act of hideous aggression or of self-sacrificing love, that is so challenging.
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