Sublime

In societies that are essentially social contracts (as all human societies are), freeloaders who take the benefits of the contract but avoid paying all the costs erode trust in other members of the community and quickly lead to the collapse of society.

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.

There is a world of difference between someone being just a bit in your debt (which will encourage them to want to go out with you so as to repay the debt) and being someone’s economic slave (because they expect you to do all the work in the relationship).

asking everybody whom they relied on for emotional support.

those who are low in Agreeableness are more likely to rise to the top of their fields.

Y que, por ello, el ser humano es por naturaleza sólo «serialmente monógamo».