"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
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"Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
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