Paul Sand

“Even if we have made the conscious decision to be nice to people we argue with, we’re still not going to be very good at it. Albert Mehrabian, a professor of psychology at UCLA, devised the 7-38-55 rule.30 Fifty-five percent of communication is through body language. People communicate 38 percent of their message through tone of voice. A mere 7 percent comes through spoken word. Social media is mostly text, so it’s easy to misattribute malice or sneers where there are none.”
― Andrew Heaton, Tribalism is Dumb: Where it Came From, How it Got So Bad, and What To Do About it

“Trump’s detractors should perhaps be spending more effort engaging their central route of persuasion by evaluating his policy positions in a dispassionate and detached manner.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“cognitive scientist, I have spent my life thinking about how people think. So the ultimate subject of my fascination would have to be how people think about what other people think, and how they think about what other people think they think, and how they think about what other people think they think they think. As dizzying as this cogitation may seem, we engage in it every day, at least tacitly, and in the limit this state of awareness”
― Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

“Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold your hand—these things are “marriage,” and sex is but the icing on the cake.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love