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Steven Pinker

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Born

in Montreal, Canada

Website

https://stevenpinker.com

Twitter

sapinker

Genre

Language, Psychology, History

Influences

Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, George Miller, Roger Brown, Herbert Simon,Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, George Miller, Roger Brown, Herbert Simon, Thomas Sowell, Thomas Nagel, Richard Dawkins. ...more

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April 2016

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Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging explorations of human nature and its relevance to language, history, morality, politics, and everyday life. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and The New Republic, and is the author of numerous books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, and most recently, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, H
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Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psycholinguist (born 1954)
Not to be confused with Steve Pink.
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954)^[2]^[3] is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular scienceauthor, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.^[8]
Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He specializes in visual cognition and developmental linguistics, and his experimental topics include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, regularity and irregularity in language, the neural basis of words and grammar, and childhood language development. Other experimental topics he works on are the psychology of cooperation and of communication, including emotional expression, euphemism, innuendo, and how people use "common knowledge", a term of art meaning the shared understanding in which two or more people know something, know that the other one knows, know the other one knows that they know, and so on.^[
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STEVEN PINKER
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language, cognition, and social relations, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of thirteen books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature,The Sense of Style, Enlightenment Now, Rationality, and When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows...
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Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works,