Publications | Steven Pinker

2022

Pinker, S. (2022). Is Belief in ESP Irrational? Steven Pinker vs. Brian D. Josephson. Skeptic.

Pinker, S., & Silverglate, H. (2022). Science and Civil Liberties: The lost ACLU lecture of Carl Sagan. Quillette.

Pinker, S., & Aaronson, S. (2022). Steven Pinker and Scott Aaronson debate AI scaling!. Collate.

2021

DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2021). Piled Modifiers, Buried Verbs, and Other Turgid Prose in the American Political Science Review. PS: Political Science & Politics.

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2020

Pinker, S. (2020). In Memoriam: Judith Rich Harris (1938 - 2019). American Psychologist, 75(7).

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

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).

Mehr, S., Singh, M., Knox, D., Kettler, D. M., Pickens-Jones, D., Atwood, S., et al. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science, 366(6468).

2018

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.

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