Baboons have the exact physiology as humans do. They also get the same stress-related illnesses, such as ulcers and heart disease. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you can't favor… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us'… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
