Publications | Steven Pinker

2019

Pinker, S. (2019). Correct For the Media’s Negativity Bias. Politico, (Sept. 20).

De Freitas, J., Thomas, K., DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2019). Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

De Freitas, J., DeScioli, P., Thomas, K. A., & Pinker, S. (2019). Maimonides’ Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1).

Pinker, S. (2019). Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on ‘Enlightenment Now,’ One Year Later. Quillette.

Goldstein, J. S., Qvist, S. A., & Pinker, S. (2019). Nuclear Power Can Save the World. The New York Times.

Pinker, S. (2019). Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas. In Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI. John Brockman.

Pinker, S. (2019). Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth Era: An (Unnecessary) Defense of Reason and a (Necessary) Defense of Universities’ Role in Advancing it. Skeptic, 24(3).

Pinker, S. (2019). What can we expect from the 2020s?. Financial Times.

Pinker, S. (2019). A Linguist’s Guide to Quid Pro Quo. The New York Times.

Pinker, S. (2019). One thing to change: Anecdotes aren’t data. The Harvard Gazette.

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