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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
- Financial Times: Steven Pinker: ‘Putin’s invasion won’t lead to a return to the age of warring civilisation’
- Now in Paperback - Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Symposium: Enlightenment 2.0 - A Review of “Rationality,” by Steven Pinker
- Collate: Steven Pinker and Scott Aaronson Debate AI Scaling!
- Skeptic: ESP Debate - Is Belief in ESP Irrational?
- A Night @ the Opera with Steven Pinker: Is Music a Universal Language?
- 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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Evidence-based strategies to reduce crime [cited in Enlightenment Now] may not conform to partisan slogans, but they work to save lives, writes Thomas Abt [former Harvard colleague & guest lecturer in my Rationality course]. t.co/L3s1QBirek via @WSJ
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As I explained in The Language Instinct (based on arguments originally from Noam Chomsky & Morris Halle), there are reasons why spelling can never be purely phonetic (not to mention that we couldn't get there from here). The Times (UK) explains: t.co/CaygKcWfxi t.co/nujStG9LWH
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Guud greef: Every few years Bernard Shaw’s society for spelling reform reappears in the news, this time with a consensus for "rational" spelling, but ... t.co/ZhOZ9G4NwR
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It's common sense that money has diminishing marginal returns: a $10K windfall should increase a poor person's happiness more than a rich person's. But now there's experimental proof: New "Mind and Matter" WSJ column by Susan Pinker. t.co/ZBLGYdxasC
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Thanks, @michaelshermer! t.co/gRBQ6s5NXb
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Where did the Askhenazim come from? Genetically, we're a mix of Palestinian, Italian, and Polish (roughly speaking). Fascinating synthesis of history & genetics by @razibkhan t.co/5uG51hOKlt
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