“If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we'd desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is… — 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
