Able Quote by Stephen Hawking

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

— Robert Nozick

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people…

— Katherine Dunn

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior…

— Albert Bandura

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

— Frans de Waal

Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual…

— Jean Piaget

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others…

— Jean Baker Miller

We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people…

— John Assaraf

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

— Robert Cialdini

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

— Richard K. Morgan

When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

— Daniel Kahneman

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

— Peter Singer