Publications | Steven Pinker

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.

Pinker, S., Hartshorne, J. K., & Tenenbaum, J. (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

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.

Pinker, S., & Santos, J. M. (2016). Colombia's Milestone in World Peace. New York Times.

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