Ronen, S., calves, G., Hu, K., Vespignani, A., Pinker, S., & Hidalgo, C. (2014). Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame. PNAS.
Publications by Type: Journal Article
2014
Reed, L., DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2014). The commitment function of angry facial expressions. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1511-1517.
2013
Chabris, C. F., Lee, J. J., Benjamin, D. J., Beauchamp, J. P., Glaeser, E. L., Borst, G., Pinker, S., & Laibson, D. I. (2013). Why It Is Hard to Find Genes Associated With Social Science Traits: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations. American Journal of Public Health, 103(1), 152-166.
Pinker, S. (2013). "The Decline of War and Conceptions of Human Nature" in The Forum: The Decline of War. International Studies Review, 15(3), 400-405.
Pinker, S. (2013). Obituaries - George A. Miller. American Psychologist, 68(6), 467-468.
Pinker, S., & Wiestier, L. (2013). Science vs. the Humanities Round III. New Republic. (Original work published 2013)
Gleditsch, N. P., Pinker, S., Thayer, B. A., Levy, J. S., & Thompson, W. R. (2013). The Forum: The Decline of War. International Studies Review, 15, 396-419.
2011
Michel, J.-B., Shen, Y. K., Aiden, A. P., Veres, A., Gray, M. K., Team, T. G. B., Pickett, J. P., Hoiberg, D., Clancy, D., Norvig, P., Orwant, J., Pinker, S., Nowak, M., & Lieberman-Aiden, E. (2011). Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books. Science, 331, 176-182.
We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of ‘culturomics,’ focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology. Culturomics extends the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the social sciences and the humanities.
Pinker, S. (2011). Taming the Devil within Us. Nature, 478, 309-311.
2010
Huang, Y.-T., & Pinker, S. (2010). Lexical semantics and irregular inflection. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 1-51.