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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.
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- 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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See also Charles Kenny’s new book for middle-school children, Your World, Better. t.co/4JzJXkcBF0 t.co/H4gyjzJ2vd
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Some correspondents have asked me whether they should get vaccinated against Covid. The answer is simple: yes. t.co/KL3Ym7IqWO via @BostonGlobe
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Jerry Coyne laments Ross Douthat lamenting the "elite's" loss of faith t.co/pMhjqlNdCj via @Evolutionistrue
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Kenny's earlier book "Getting Better" was a major inspiration for my Enlightenment Now. Also recommended: His new history of pandemics, and his cheeky "Close the Pentagon" (related to Mueller's The Stupidity of War). t.co/YMqrA1Fk6l
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Kids are taught that everything's getting worse and we're all doomed--factually incorrect, and a message that leads to cynicism & fatalism, not constructive action. An antidote: Charles Kenny's new Your World, Better, aimed at middle-school kids. t.co/4JzJXkcBF0
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RIP Horekhwe Karoha Langwane, Kalahari San hunter who ran down the kudu in the video of a persistence hunt (a major selection pressure on H sap) narrated by David Attenborough. Also pioneered software to gather wildlife data, coauthored scientific papers t.co/uOpSfDRGyf
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