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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
- 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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My grandparents' countrymen -- no wonder they left for Canada around this time. t.co/KfbUsxtVvu
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How should science be conveyed to the public? An exploration by Julie Heng. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson t.co/PvtG16DAJC
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It was bound to happen. Should psychotherapists stereotype their clients and insist they're either oppressors or victims? Sally @slsatel notes the ethical and professional problems with this fad. t.co/cGHabvRH1U via @Quillette
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Relaxing patent protection on vaccines is virtue-signaling and won’t increase the supply. The bottlenecks are in materials & manufacturing capacity. t.co/t7zF2c8nkd
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Vaccine Hesitancy Is as Old as Vaccines. I Take Comfort in That. t.co/P9aYHDpmbB
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Biden Goes Nuclear In Big Atomic Humanist Victory, by @ShellenbergerMD t.co/8m5ym75b7y
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