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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
- 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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Carole Hooven (Harvard colleague, star teacher, and former teaching assistant) on testosterone, previewing her forthcoming book "T" t.co/N6MD02vByh
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Recommended! t.co/MZOKlYF6hY
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The film “Better Left Unsaid” featuring @sapinker, @coldxman, @michaelshermer and Noam Chomsky takes on the rise of political extremism in the West. I’ll be hosting the Q&A as part of the @fairforall_org film festival with the producer and director. See the film & register: t.co/cYURn1sz49
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A thoughtful review of a thoughtful (and vitally important) new book, Jonathan Rauch’s @jon_rauch The Constitution of Knowledge. Epistemological Madisonianism t.co/pDMlPk1h47
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Bill Maher Diagnoses Liberal ‘Progressophobia’ by @Peggynoonannyc t.co/RJsNHJcHI1 via @WSJOpinion
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Obit for my Stanford colleague Lee Ross, the insightful and entertaining discoverer of the profound "fundamental attribution error" (which explains, among other things, why professors sound so smart). t.co/WUIUAKbWMM
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