My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether… — 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
