Robert Sapolsky

American neuroendocrinology researcher · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1957 · age 69

Robert Morris Sapolsky is an American academic, neuroscientist, and primatologist. He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, where he is also a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery. Sapolsky's research has focused on neuroendocrinology, particularly relating to stress.

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2018“From the very moment of your life, culture is leaving an imprint on who you are.”In their wordsArts & Ideas -- Published by : Show_More Feb, 7, 2018Read the whole statement

2017“We build theologies around violence, elect leaders who excel at it, and in the case of so many women, preferentially mate with champions of human combat.”In their words"Introduction", p. 9Read the whole statement

“Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia.”In their words"Hours to Days Before", p. 109Read the whole statement

“Like so many other animals, we have an often-frantic need to conform, belong, and obey.”In their words"Hierarchy, Obedience, and Resistance", p. 451Read the whole statement

2013APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to PsychologyAward2003“Why do we have schizophrenia in every culture on this planet? From an evolutionary perspective, schizophrenia is not a cool thing to have. ...”In their words23 November 2003"Emperor Has No Clothes Award" acceptance speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, San Diego (23 November 2003), ExcerptRead the whole statement

“In the 1930s an anthropologist named Paul Radin first described it as "shamans being half mad," shamans being "healed madmen." This fits exactly.”In their words23 November 2003"Emperor Has No Clothes Award" acceptance speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, San Diego (23 November 2003), ExcerptRead the whole statement

2002Emperor Has No Clothes AwardAward1957Born6 April 1957

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Ecosystems majorly shape culture - but then that culture can be exported and persist in radically different places for millennia.
2017 · "Centuries to Millennia Before", p. 313, Own words
We're only a couple of hundreds of years into understanding that epilepsy is a neurological disease and not a demonic possession.
2017 · The Neuroscience Behind Behavior (2017), Own words
Schizophrenics have a whole lot of trouble telling the level of abstraction of a story.
23 November 2003 · "Emperor Has No Clothes Award" acceptance speech at the Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, San Diego (23 November 2003), Excerpt, Own words