Pinker, S. (2018). Doomsday is (not) coming: The dangers of worrying about the apocalypse. The Globe and Mail.
Publications
2018
Pinker, S. (2018). Steven Pinker recommends books to make you an optimist. The Guardian.
Thomas, K. A., DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2018). Common knowledge, coordination, and the logic of self-conscious emotions. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 179–190.
Hartshorne, J. K., Tenenbaum, J., & Pinker, S. (2018). A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Cognition, 177, 263-277.
2017
De Freitas, J., DeScioli, P., Nemirow, J., Massenkoff, M., & Pinker, S. (2017). Kill or Die: Moral Judgment Alters Linguistic Coding of Causality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1173–1182.
2016
Pinker, S. (2016). We Make Art Because We Can. Museum of Old and New Art.
Pinker, S. (2016). The Blank Slate (2002/2016). New York, NY: Viking.
"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read... also highly persuasive." —Michael Lemonick, Time
A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature.
One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
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Pinker, S. (2016). What to Expect in 2016: New Advances in Behavioral Genetics. Wall Street Journal.
Goldstein, J. S., & Pinker, S. (2016). The decline of war and violence. The Boston Globe.
Shoard, C., Perry, P., Pinker, S., Keltner, D., Blackmore, S., & Greenfield, S. (2016). Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works. The Guardian.