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Robert Sapolsky

Date of Birth:

16-Apr-1957

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United States

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Robert Sapolsky is one of the world's leading neuroscientists, a research partner with the Institute of Primate Research Museums of Kenya, and the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. At the same time, he was named "one of the greatest science-writers of our time" by Oliver Sacks and "one of the greatest natural historians" by The New York Times. Prof. Sapolsky has produced, in addition to a number of scientific papers, comprehensive audience books, including A Primate's Memoir: Neuroscientist's Uncommon Life Among Monkeys, Why Zebras Do Not Get Sores: Depression and Disease, and The Trouble with Testosterone.

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For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.
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Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.
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That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.
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It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.
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An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.
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Many of our moments of prosociality, of altruism and Good Samaritanism, are acts of restitution, attempts to counter our antisocial moments.
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If you turn on the stress response chronically for purely psychological reasons, you increase your risk of adult-onset diabetes and high blood pressure.
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We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.
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We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it's the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it's the right kind of violence, we love it.
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If you're a baboon on the Serengeti, and you're miserable, it's almost certainly because some other baboon has had the free time and energy to devote to making you miserable.
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We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion.
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The first roller coaster I ever went on in my life wasn't until college.
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