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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
- The Blog of Scott Aaronson: Steven Pinker and I debate AI scaling!
- 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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Incisive and urgent analysis by @Yascha_Mounk on our current danger. t.co/gQWUJY21bJ
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Civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate found a 35-year old audiocassette of a lost lecture on science & civil liberties by Carl Sagan. We edited & annotated it (w permission of Ann Druyan), explaining its allusions & updating it for 2022. t.co/fBhrkR8vvN
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Why are corollaries of nat. selection spun as a "sci revolution" implying the theory's obsolete? I suspect many intellectuals hate its apparent glorification of competition, utility & inheritance & seek something with more uplift. t.co/JrWwmHRT6j via @Evolutionistrue
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Once again: A misguided article on why the theory of evolution is obsolete – Why Evolution Is True t.co/I0knYn4Rtu
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Informative and moving report from Kyiv. (I correspond with several people in Ukraine to try to appreciate what life is like in a war & to try to keep up their spirits.) t.co/SUdhVPuaQ9
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I never dreamed that one of my books would be featured in Medina! Thanks, @ideasb2! t.co/JAR6aJR5jO
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