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Experimental psychologist interested in all aspects of language, mind, and human nature.
Steven Pinker conducts research on a variety of topics in psychology and cognitive science, including common knowledge (things that everyone knows everyone knows), language acquisition, emotion, the moral sense, rationality, and trends in violence.
Latest News and Updates
- Bicycling: This Scientist Can't Stop Thinking About Cycling
- Boston Globe: Is Russia’s war with Ukraine the end of the Long Peace?
- Why IBB Translated Steven Pinker’s New Book RATIONALITY for the Middle East - Ideas Beyond Borders
- BBC News: Three ways to be more rational this year
- BBC Radio: Think with Pinker
- Quillette: The Need for Rationality in a Hostile World
- Steven Pinker : "L'irrationalité actuelle ne signifie pas que notre espèce débloque"
- The Weekly Dish: Steven Pinker on Rationality In Our Tribal Times
- The Next Big Idea Podcast: Steven Pinker's Love Song to Critical Thinking
- Behavioral Scientist: The Monty Hall Problem (Finally) Explained
- The Washington Post: The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable
- Penguin: Where to start with Steven Pinker
- Richard Hanania: Rationality Requires Incentives: An Interview with Steven Pinker
- Steven Pinker: 'A generation has to watch every word... It could cripple intellectual life'
- The Times: Rationality - Steven Pinker's war on conspiracy theories
- New York Times Magazine: Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong
- Martin Rees and Steven Pinker: Wagering on catastrophe
- Effective Altruism: An Interview with Steven Pinker
- How humans gained an "extra life" (Review Steven Johnson’s “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer.”)
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Intro to Psych Science: Lecture 6, The Brain
- "What is human nature?" Panpsychast podcast (June 7, 2020)
- "Can we build a more rational world?" The Good Fight podcast
- The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights
- Freakonomics podcast - People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 1: Steven Pinker
- Responses to the Letter to the Linguistics Society of America
- Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker
- From Verbs to War: In Conversation With Steven Pinker
- Lectures on Rationality
- Maimonides’ Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability
- A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers
- Get Shorty: Steven Pinker on the Enlightenment
- Universality and diversity in human song
- "Dissecting Morality" podcast from the Ministry of Ideas
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From Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress t.co/Uld4psZo2M t.co/I7a9vRcG2x
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Yet another refutation of the false belief among neo-reactionaries that everything is getting worse, we're on the verge of crisis and collapse so we should go back to pre-Enlightenment rule by throne and altar, etc. t.co/AF8qkrzTP4
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Another, more recent refutation: t.co/Uld4psZo2M
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The Anti-Reactionary FAQ: A refutation of the assumptions behind NRx by @slatestarcodex t.co/1zUUKocSqS
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A TL article on the Neo-Reactionary (NRx) movement, (which, far from taking over tech, is alarming many of the people in it). Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets t.co/Nm6wTmCDXP via @VanityFair
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Just finished a fascinating book - Don't Trust Your Gut, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (author of Everybody Lies). Classic psych finding: data out-predicts intuition. SS-D cites recent big data on happiness, love, career success, & more. t.co/wiiUVJ0Wl5 via @amazon
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