Robert Sapolsky

Individuating and taking someone else's perspective can be very powerful.

— Robert Sapolsky

Low socioeconomic status carries with it an enormously increased risk of a broad range of diseases, and this gradient cannot be fully…

— Robert Sapolsky

The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't…

— Robert Sapolsky

My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that…

— Robert Sapolsky

Regardless of your sex, if you have elevated testosterone levels in your blood, you're more likely to think a face with a…

— Robert Sapolsky

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has…

— Robert Sapolsky

If we want to make sense of our behavior - all the best, worst, and everything in between - we're not going…

— Robert Sapolsky

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

— Robert Sapolsky

Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like…

— Robert Sapolsky

The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research…

— Robert Sapolsky

For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of…

— Robert Sapolsky

Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control…

— Robert Sapolsky

“If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we'd desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more…

— Robert Sapolsky

Trying to get somebody excited about learning and trying to get somebody to think in a moral context have begun to have…

— Robert Sapolsky

My adolescent rebellions took the form of, if anything, passive aggressively doing what was asked of me but doing it ten times…

— Robert Sapolsky

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

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

— Robert Sapolsky

For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good…

— Robert Sapolsky

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have…

— Robert Sapolsky

Do I get grief for the fact that in communicating, say, about the baboons I'm doing so much anthropomorphizing? One hopes that…

— Robert Sapolsky

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

— Robert Sapolsky

“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”

— Robert Sapolsky

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

— Robert Sapolsky

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

— Robert Sapolsky

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

— Robert Sapolsky