Bad news Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky Download Open image “Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.” — Robert M. Sapolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad news Hormones News Oxytocin Teflon
To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, Neumann believes the primary function of oxytocin is to protect the brain from the hormonal havoc caused by birth and parenting. “Sexual steroids… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
In 1999, Purdue Pharma the maker of OxyContin went on a massive marketing campaign. Back then, prescription opioids were only used in extreme cases… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
This estrogen force field needs to dissipate... Move along. All of you. Now! — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always thought an Oxymoron was an idiot addicted to synthetic heroin until I Googled it...lol — Brian Zilinek Copy Share Image
Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless. — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
“Its extremely potent active ingredient is an opioid called oxycodone, synthesized from the raw material of opium. The substance was a hot topic among… — Norman Ohler Copy Share Image
“Secure-attachment 7Rs show more generosity than average. Thus 7R has something to do with generosity—but its effect is entirely context dependent.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Finally, for the same criminal conviction, the more stereotypically Af-rican a black individual’s facial features, the longer the sentence.15 In contrast, juries view black… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“So testosterone does subtle things to behavior. Nonetheless, this doesn’t tell us much because everything can be interpreted every which way. Testosterone increases anxiety—you… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of angels. Distrust… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the environment.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The subject of one experiment is a rat that receives mild electric shocks (roughly equivalent to the static shock you might get from scuffing… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“No brain region is an island, and the formation of circuits connecting far-flung brain regions is crucial—how else can the frontal cortex use its… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk assessment, and… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Most broadly, the PFC chooses between conflicting options—Coke or Pepsi; blurting out what you really think or restraining yourself; pulling the trigger or not.… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
“I remember a man, a very lonely man, coming up to me at the end of a reading and looking into my face and… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“The bad news is that, measured in terms of geologic time, if the Earth’s history is an accurate guide, glaciers will soon return to… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
