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Neuroendocrinologist

Robert M. Sapolsky is a renowned neuroendocrinologist known for his research on stress, neurobiology, and evolutionary psychology. His work has revealed how stress affects the brain and body, and how these effects relate to human behavior and health.

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“Whether one becomes irrationally risk taking (failing to shift strategy in response to a declining reward rate) or risk averse (failing to respond to the opposite), one is incorporating new information poorly. Stated most broadly, sustained stress impairs risk assessment.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“In the absence of stress, men tend toward more risk taking than women; thus, once again, hormones enhance a preexisting tendency.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“We don't passively forget that something is scary. We actively learn that it isn't anymore.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Instead of causes, biology is repeatedly about propensities, potentials, vulnerabilities, predispositions, proclivities, interactions, modulations, contingencies, if/then clauses, context dependencies, exacerbation or diminution of preexisting tendencies. Circles and loops and spirals and Möbius strips.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.”

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