Sublime

But sometimes you can also make an instant judgment about a stranger. Probably not for the loan of your life savings or the pin-number to your bank account, but certainly for a drink at the bar or a bit of help at the roadside. So how do we make that judgment?

A relationship’s resistance to breaches of trust was viewed as a function of the level of trust: the more trusting the relationship, the bigger or more frequent the breaches had to be to destabilise it.

Network size increased up to the age of about thirty, stabilised, and then began to decline again from the age of about sixty.

deep emotional content of relationships,

What we learn from this is that people will resort to violence if they can get away with it when it provides them with benefits.

“When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.”