Publications | Steven Pinker

2020

Seitz, B. M., Aktipis, A., Buss, D. M., Alcock, J., Bloom, P., Gelfand, M., et al. (2020). The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights. PNAS.

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.

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

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.

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

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