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Experimental psychologist interested in all aspects of language, mind, and human nature.
Steven Pinker conducts research on a variety of topics in psychology and cognitive science, including common knowledge (things that everyone knows everyone knows), language acquisition, emotion, the moral sense, rationality, and trends in violence.
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- Martin Rees and Steven Pinker: Wagering on catastrophe
- Effective Altruism: An Interview with Steven Pinker
- How humans gained an "extra life" (Review Steven Johnson’s “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer.”)
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- Intro to Psych Science: Lecture 6, The Brain
- "What is human nature?" Panpsychast podcast (June 7, 2020)
- "Can we build a more rational world?" The Good Fight podcast
- The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights
- Freakonomics podcast - People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 1: Steven Pinker
- Responses to the Letter to the Linguistics Society of America
- Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker
- From Verbs to War: In Conversation With Steven Pinker
- Lectures on Rationality
- Maimonides’ Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability
- A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers
- Get Shorty: Steven Pinker on the Enlightenment
- Universality and diversity in human song
- "Dissecting Morality" podcast from the Ministry of Ideas
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في ضيافة الفيلسوف و عالم اللغة نعوم جومسكي t.co/IIdOaiFJGg via @YouTube And the previous interview in the series with my former colleague Noam Chomsky.
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My interview on writing, second language acquisition, and cognitive linguistics with Iraqi linguist Waleed Khalid. t.co/u1T9rPzphJ via @YouTube
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Montreal's Days of Shame: When 75 Doctors Went on Strike until a Jewish Doctor Resigned. (I was born in the Jewish General Hospital - this history helps explain why so many cities have Sinai/Cedars/Beth-Israel/Montefiore & other Jewish hospitals.) t.co/dXfsJ1oS2d
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WSJ best books of the month: Includes Carole Hooven's "T" (all about testosterone). @hoovlet . t.co/NzMzVQGqOf via @WSJ
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Congratulations to Paul Penn, author of The Psychology of Effective Studying, for being named HE Psychology Teacher of the Year 2021 - Oxford University Press t.co/YEZnInhmGW
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Waterstones is offering signed copies of Rationality (I have the sore wrist to prove it) for preorder. t.co/CkSGWGWwP5 t.co/EURZu0xvYI
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