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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
- 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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Twitter Feed
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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) fights both "ruby red state legislatures" who try to stifle academic speech they dislike & Ivy league U's that try to punish speech as "misconduct." t.co/hxiOXqHLsH via @TheFIREorg
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Judge Issues Stinging Free Speech Ruling Against University of Florida - a victory against the repression of speech from the right. t.co/kN13QDjVSp
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What if there was a chemical that simultaneously made women bolder and men calmer? It already exists on the heads of babies. New WSJ Mind Matters column by Susan Pinker. t.co/6Y3BwZz3tL via @WSJ
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New Season | Poetry in America PBS (hosted by my Harvard colleague Lisa New). t.co/E9YtLDEbcH
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My colleagues Tessa Charlesworth & Mahzarin Banaji find that implicit racism & homophobia have declined, but not implicit ageism & reactions to disability. (Not surprising: Being disabled or old involve intrinsic disadvantages.) t.co/HdXUJCXM2P via @Harvard
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Original report, by MIT's Ashley Thomas & Rebecca Saxe, my Harvard colleagues Brandon Woo & Elizabeth Spelke, & evolutionary psychologist Daniel Nettle. t.co/xTO2w9unWs t.co/dvo89V8gBT
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