Eric Stonestreet Quotes

Looking back at my school reports, I start off as quite a swotty kid, and then when I get to 12 or 13, my teachers start saying: 'Lee has started to joke around a lot in class.' After that, it's a steady graph of decline, with the jokes increasing and increasing.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed, or quarreled in troops and companies.

The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself.

… the enforcement of public opinion depends on our appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of others; and this appreciation is founded on our sympathy, which it can hardly be doubted was originally developed through natural selection as one of the most important elements of the social instincts.

Society becomes how we behave.

Our species likes being social.

I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

I don't say too much. Quavo and Offset - I don't talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

The majority of cats are very gregarious - they love each other so much; they enjoy living together and grooming each other.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.