Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dawson College, University of California, Santa Barbara, Stanford University, McGill University

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Cognitive scientist, linguist, and author, Steven Pinker currently holds the title of Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Previously, Pinker taught at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pinker earned his bachelor’s in psychology from McGill University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1979 at Harvard.

Pinker is recognized for his interdisciplinary work, combining psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics, and is a vocal proponent of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Though he has several decades of research and academic work to his name, Pinker is best recognized as an author of popular science books, in which he expounds on ideas from linguistics and evolutionary psychology in a way accessible to a mainstream audience. In particular, Pinker often builds on the ideas of Noam Chomsky, arguing that language is a unique and innate faculty of the human mind, and that (his own stance) it emerges from evolution and natural selection. Pinker’s views have not been received without controversy.

For his work, Pinker has been recognized as a highly influential voice in psychology, linguistics, and popular science. He has received such awards and honors as being named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine, an Early Career Award and a Boyd Candless Award from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, and has twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is also the first member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (no, really).

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Published Papers

The Language Instinct (1994) (5168)
How the Mind Works (1999) (2858)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) (2393)
Language learnability and language development (1985) (2321)
Natural language and natural selection (1990) (2079)
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989) (1643)
On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition (1988) (1576)
The language instinct : how the mind creates language (1995) (1347)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (1994) (1163)
The faculty of language: what's special about it? (2005) (1039)
Overregularization in language acquisition. (1992) (840)
Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition (1989) (825)
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011) (798)
The past and future of the past tense (2002) (769)
A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System (1997) (754)
Words and rules (1998) (694)
Rules of language. (1991) (643)
The language instinct : the new science of language and mind (1994) (642)
German Inflection: The Exception That Proves the Rule (1995) (574)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007) (526)
A theory of graph comprehension. (1990) (479)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999) (444)
Formal models of language learning (1979) (442)
Generalisation of regular and irregular morphological patterns (1993) (425)
The Blank Slate (2006) (355)
Visual cognition: An introduction (1984) (354)
On the demystification of mental imagery (1979) (348)
The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) (2005) (333)
The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language (2010) (308)
Regular and Irregular Morphology and the Psychological Status of Rules of Grammar (1991) (303)
Productivity and constraints in the acquisition of the passive (1987) (295)
A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers (2018) (267)
The better angels of our nature : the decline of violence in history and its causes (2011) (262)
The mystery of consciousness. (2007) (257)
The logic of indirect speech (2008) (257)
Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (2014) (248)
Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche (2003) (246)
Affectedness and direct objects: The role of lexical semantics in the acquisition of verb argument structure (1991) (242)
When does Human Object Recognition use a Viewer-Centered Reference Frame? (1990) (231)
Reinterpreting Visual Patterns in Mental Imagery (1989) (227)
Connections and symbols (1988) (214)
The Better Angels of Our Nature (2020) (204)
How could a child use verb syntax to learn verb semantics (1994) (198)
So How Does the Mind Work (2005) (186)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018) (184)
Sequential Processing of Lexical, Grammatical, and Phonological Information Within Broca’s Area (2009) (182)
Universality and diversity in human song (2018) (179)
The Stupidity of Dignity (2008) (177)
The better angels of our nature : a history of violence and humanity (2012) (175)
Words and rules in the human brain (1997) (171)
Why No Mere Mortal Has Ever Flown Out to Center Field (1991) (164)
Rationales for indirect speech: the theory of the strategic speaker. (2010) (160)
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (2014) (145)
Mental imagery and the third dimension. (1980) (135)
Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame (2014) (134)
Emergent two-dimensional patterns in images rotated in depth. (1980) (131)
Syntax and semantics in the acquisition of locative verbs (1991) (130)
Word magic revisited: monolingual and bilingual children's understanding of the word-object relationship. (1983) (128)
Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1991) (119)
The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. (2014) (119)
THE FALSE ALLURE OF GROUP SELECTION (2015) (116)
Abstract Grammatical Processing of Nouns and Verbs in Broca's Area: Evidence from FMRI (2006) (115)
Weird past tense forms (1995) (113)
On language and connectionism (1988) (110)
Speakers' sensitivity to rules of frozen word order (1979) (106)
Spontaneous imagery scanning in mental extrapolation. (1982) (94)
Positive and negative evidence in language acquistion (1989) (94)
Sensitivity of children's inflection to grammatical structure (1994) (91)
Default nominal inflection in Hebrew: evidence for mental variables (1999) (89)
Resolving a learnability paradox in the acquisition of the verb lexicon. (1989) (86)
Some evidence that irregular forms are retrieved from memory but regular forms are rule generated (1990) (82)
The Commitment Function of Angry Facial Expressions (2014) (69)
Toward a Consilient Study of Literature (2007) (69)
Generalizations of regular and irregular morphology (1993) (68)
Combination and structure, not gradedness, is the issue (2002) (67)
Why nature & nurture won't go away (2004) (67)
The evolutionary social psychology of off-record indirect speech acts (2007) (66)
The biological basis of language: insight from developmental grammatical impairments (2014) (63)
Introduction to special issue of Cognition on lexical and conceptual semantics (1991) (60)
Why it is hard to find genes associated with social science traits: theoretical and empirical considerations. (2013) (57)
Talk of genetics and vice versa (2001) (55)
Directional scanning of remembered visual patterns. (1983) (51)
The Nature of Regularity and Irregularity: Evidence from Hebrew Nominal Inflection (2002) (49)
Computation of semantic number from morphological information (2005) (49)
Article Commentary: Orientation-Dependent Mechanisms in Shape Recognition: Further Issues (1991) (43)
The Nature of Human Concepts/Evidence from an Unusual Source (1996) (42)
Clarifying the logical problem of language acquisition (2004) (42)
Decline of violence: Taming the devil within us (2011) (41)
Critical Discussion (2007) (41)
Out of the Minds of Babes (1999) (41)
Rules and connections in human language (1988) (40)
The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights (2020) (40)
The Dislike of Regular Plurals in Compounds: Phonological Familiarity or Morphological Constraint? (2007) (38)
The how, what, and why of mental imagery (1979) (37)
Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life (2019) (35)
On the acquisition of grammatical morphemes (1981) (34)
Language Learnability and Language Development, With New Commentary by the Author: With New Commentary by the Author (2009) (32)
Language acquisition (1989) (31)
The Moral Instinct (2017) (30)
Mental extrapolation in patterns constructed from memory (1984) (29)
The Representation of Location in Visual Images (1994) (29)
Representations and Decision Rules in the Theory of Self-Deception (2011) (29)
Recursive mentalizing and common knowledge in the bystander effect. (2016) (27)
Whatever Happened to the Past Tense Debate (2006) (27)
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature (2013) (27)
The forum: The decline of war (2013) (25)
On Language (1994) (24)
The Sense of Style (2014) (23)
What's special about the human language faculty? (2005) (23)
Survival of the clearest (2000) (21)
A Computational Theory of the Mental Imagery Medium (1988) (20)
Direct vs. representational views of cognition: A parallel between vision and phonology (1980) (20)
Beyond one model per phenomenon (2003) (20)
A Reply to Jerry Fodor on How the Mind Works (2005) (19)
The reality of a universal language faculty (2009) (18)
Language as a window into human nature (2008) (17)
Facts about human language relevant to its evolution (1996) (17)
Lexical & Conceptual Semantics (1992) (16)
Lexical semantics and irregular inflection (2010) (16)
Common knowledge, coordination, and the logic of self-conscious emotions (2017) (16)
Theories of mental imagery (1983) (15)
Everybody lies : what the Internet can tell us about who we really are (2018) (15)
The Learnability and Acquistion of Dative Alternation in English (1989) (14)
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles (2013) (14)
The Past and Future of the Past Tense Debate (2002) (14)
The Components of Language: What's Specific to Language, and What's Specific to Humans1 (2009) (14)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2000) (14)
Pattern Perception and the Comprehension of Graphs. (1983) (14)
The past-tense debate (2002) (13)
Maimonides’ Ladder: States of Mutual Knowledge and the Perception of Charitability (2019) (13)
The Decline of War and Conceptions of Human Nature (2013) (13)
The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion (2004) (12)
Crazy love. (2008) (12)
Virtuous Violence: Figures and tables (2014) (12)
Block That Metaphor (2006) (12)
Does language frame politics (2007) (12)
Why Nature and Nurture Won’t Go Away (2013) (11)
The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television (2008) (11)
The Game of the Name (1994) (11)
Indirect speech, politeness, deniability, and relationship negotiation: Comment on Marina Terkourafi (2011) (11)
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience (2015) (11)
My Genome, Myself (2009) (11)
Version of 3 / 23 / 05 The Nature of the Language Faculty and its Implications for Evolution of Language ( Reply to Fitch , Hauser , & Chomsky ) (2006) (10)
Kill or Die: Moral Judgment Alters Linguistic Coding of Causality (2017) (10)
Wickelphone ambiguity (1988) (10)
The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine (2001) (9)
Issues in the evolution of the human language faculty (1990) (9)
The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine (2001) (9)
Response to the Book Review Symposium: Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2015) (8)
Can you Believe in God and Evolution (2005) (8)
The Cognitive Niche (2013) (8)
Compound formation is constrained by morphology: A reply to Seidenberg, MacDonald, & Haskell (2008) (8)
Learnability Theory and the Acquisition of a First Language (2013) (8)
The dislike of regular plurals in compounds (2007) (7)
Forced to Choose (2018) (7)
Markedness and Language Development (1989) (7)
The Science of Difference: Sex Ed (2005) (7)
Philosophy of Violence (2011) (7)
Strangled by Roots: The Genealogy Craze in America (2007) (7)
Visual Cognition (1986) (7)
Toward a consilient study of literature (review of J. Gottschall & D. Sloan Wilson, "The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative") (2007) (6)
The Fear of Determinism (2008) (6)
In Defense of Dangerous Ideas (2007) (6)
Evolutionary Psychology: Letter on Stephen Jay Gould's 'Darwinian Fundamentalists' (1997) (6)
The Acquisition of Argument Structure (2013) (6)
How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion VOLUME 1 Evolution , Genes , and the Religious Brain (2007) (6)
The Irregular Verbs (2000) (5)
Mental maps, mental images, and intuitions about space (1979) (5)
Are your genes to blame? (2003) (5)
Children's inflection is sensitive to morphological structure (1991) (5)
Erratum: Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2014) 111 (13790-13794) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404623111) (2015) (4)
A Conversation with Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke (2005) (4)
Better Babies? Why genetic enhancement is too unlikely to worry about (2003) (4)
What is a language, that a child may learn it, and a child, that he may learn a language? . Formal Principles of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980. Pp. xvii + 647. $35.00 (1981) (4)
Still Stimulating After All These Years (1998) (4)
Introduction to special issue of Cognition (1991) (4)
Political bias, explanatory depth, and narratives of progress. (2015) (4)
Humans did not evolve from bats (1994) (4)
The Seed Salon (2004) (4)
Language as a psychological adaptation. (1997) (4)
A natural history of song [working paper] (2018) (3)
The Lessons of the Ashkenazim: Groups and Genes (2006) (3)
Compound formation is constrained by morphology (2008) (3)
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? (2016) (3)
Can a Computer Be Conscious (1997) (3)
Will the mind figure out how the brain works? (2000) (3)
Subsymbols aren't much good outside of a symbol-processing architecture (1988) (3)
Oaf of Office (2009) (3)
The Natural History of Song (2016) (2)
All About Evil (2000) (2)
Human object recognition uses a viewer-centered frame of reference (1989) (2)
Racist Language, Real and Imagined (1999) (2)
Why The World is More Peaceful (2012) (2)
Everything You Heard is Wrong (2008) (2)
Steven Pinker on the myth of violence (2007) (2)
Dating, Swearing, Sex and Language: A Conversation with Questions (2007) (2)
The Brain: The Mystery of Conciousness (2007) (2)
ABSTRACT GRAMMATICAL PROCESSING IN BROCA'S AREA: CONVERGENT EVIDENCE FROM FMRI AND INTRACRANIAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY (2007) (2)
4 A Theory of Graph Comprehension (2008) (2)
Baby monitor. (2001) (2)
Life in the Fourth Millennium (2000) (2)
What the F (2007) (2)
The Brain's Versatile Toolbox. (1997) (2)
Explanations in theories of language and of imagery (1980) (2)
Roger Brown (1998) (2)
Obituary: Roger Brown (1998) (2)
Data and Materials (2016) (2)
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY (2008) (2)
How to think about the mind. (2004) (2)
College Makeover: The matrix, revisited (2005) (2)
Ethics and the Ethical Brain (2010) (2)
Sniffing Out the Gay Gene (2005) (1)
Liberals Ate My Genes? (2004) (1)
How To Get Inside a Student's Head (2003) (1)
His Brain Measured Up (1999) (1)
Semantic, Phonological, and Lexical Influences on Regular and Irregular Inflection (2005) (1)
Horton Heared a Who (1999) (1)
Rotating shapes to recognize them (1988) (1)
Introduction (1988) (1)
Pieces of Minds in Psycholinguistics (1993) (1)
There Will Always be an English , Dec. 24, 1999 (1999) (1)
Enlightenment Environmentalism: A Humanistic Response to Climate Change (2021) (1)
George A. Miller (1920-2012). (2013) (1)
Virtuous Violence: War (2014) (1)
Presidents Behaving Badly (1998) (1)
Deep Commonalities between Life and Mind (2013) (1)
Beyond folk psychology (1995) (1)
1 The nature of human concepts (1999) (1)
Thought: book review has my ideas back to front (2007) (1)
What spatial representation and language acquisition don't have in common (1981) (1)
Debating Human Happiness with Martin Seligman and Robert Wright (2002) (1)
Is there a gene for compassion (1994) (1)
The Known World: Review of The Canon (2007) (1)
Words don't mean what they mean. (2007) (1)
A Pinker View of Almost Everything (2014) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Evolutionary, philosophical, legal, psychological, and research implications (2014) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Rape (2014) (0)
Judith Rich Harris (1938-2019). (2020) (0)
Thinking Tools to Manage Change Dr. Richard Giordano Resources The following is a partial list of resources utilized in the presentation of the "Thinking Tools to Manage Change" program: (2003) (0)
Conference on Evolution and the Human Sciences (1992) (0)
Q & A Steven Pinker (2004) (0)
Decoding the candidates (2000) (0)
Mastering the language of atoms (2001) (0)
Dissociation of English Past Tense Forms in Aphasia (2018) (0)
A Modern View on the “ Third Culture ” Movement : (2011) (0)
Time 100 scientists & thinkers. Paul Allen. (2007) (0)
The Humanities and Human Nature1 (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
How to be more rational/A rationality reboot/Let's get logical “Conspiracy theories are probably as old as human groups. Paranormal woo isn't new. Neither is fake news” (2021) (0)
Whatever Happened to the Past Tense Debate? - eScholarship (2006) (0)
How Much Art Can the Brain Take (1998) (0)
Where Angels Fear To Tread: Steven Pinker’s Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence (2019) (0)
A brief history of the past three billion years: The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (2000) (0)
dÉJÀ Vu: LET’S CELEBRATE THE uNCONSCIOuS Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (2019) (0)
On My Mind: Steven Pinker on Swearing and Violence (2008) (0)
Release Kian Tajbakhsh (2009) (0)
Of Chicks and Frogs (2006) (0)
Steven Pinker's Reply to Ahouse & Berwick's Review of How the Mind Works (1998) (0)
The Human Mind (2011) (0)
Summary of " The Nature of Human Nature " Language (2010) (0)
The Seven Wonders of the World Convocation Address (1999) (0)
Steven Pinker and Michael T. Ullman (2002) (0)
Pop Psychology Probe (2009) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Non-bodily violence: robbery (2014) (0)
"There are 60 significant studies that show differences - in the actual brain areas, the wiring and the timing of development. We don't really know what the impact is yet." (2011) (0)
Sibling Rivalry: Why the nature/nurture debate won't go away (2002) (0)
Inequality and Progress (2021) (0)
Remarks by Newly Elected Members (1998) (0)
Learning Through Associations (2021) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Violent bereavement (2014) (0)
Editorial Board (1987) (0)
The future of human nature: a symposium on the promises and challengesof the revolutions in genomics and computer science, April 10, 11, and 12, 2003 (2004) (0)
Chasing the Jargon Jitters (1995) (0)
Virtuous Violence: References (2014) (0)
Mental images can be reinterpreted (1986) (0)
237 Extending our view of mind. Review of: Supersizing the mind: embodiment, action, and cognitive extension (2009) (0)
Virtuous Violence: The point (2014) (0)
The gender debate: science promises an honest investigation of the world (2006) (0)
Books (1973) (0)
9.00P Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2001 (2001) (0)
The second school believes music (2012) (0)
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology (1996) (0)
Dangerous Minds, Lethal Machines: Why I Chose 2001 (2004) (0)
Building a better brain (1994) (0)
Review of: Ted Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002 (2003) (0)
Running Head : PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND COORDINATION 1 The Psychology of Common Knowledge and Coordination (2015) (0)
Below is the unedited preprint (not a quotable final draft) of: (2014) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Self-harm and suicide (2014) (0)
Celebrating a decade of TiCS (2007) (0)
Maybe it does all fit: Conspiracy theories are ridiculed, but is this fair? (2014) (0)
Author's Reply to Review of Histories of Violence (2012) (0)
Sources and Experts (2019) (0)
Steven Pinker on Al Bregman (2008) (0)
Comments by Steven Pinker (2006) (0)
Violence: clarified. (2012) (0)
[Language Acquisition: How Do They Do It?]* (2020) (0)
What of Human Nature in The Art of the Deal (2018) (0)
Why Political Scientists Aren't Public (2016) (0)
Listening Between the Lines (1998) (0)
UNIT 4 LANGUAGE AND SPEECH DISORDERS (2012) (0)
Yes, Genes Can Be Selfish (2006) (0)
Thoroughly modern mentalism. (1982) (0)
Deviations from Normality. (1987) (0)
Educating Eve (2017) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1983) (0)
Evolution's final frontiers (2009) (0)
The Seed Salon: Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein (2004) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Making them one with us: initiation, clitoridectomy, infibulation, circumcision, and castration (2014) (0)
An open letter in support of Jason Rezaian (2015) (0)
WhyItIsHardtoFindGenesAssociatedWithSocialScience Traits:TheoreticalandEmpiricalConsiderations (2013) (0)
Chapter 6 Language Acquisition (2005) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Homicide: he had it coming (2014) (0)
Corrigendum to “common knowledge, coordination, and the logic of self-conscious emotions” [Evolution and Human Behavior volume 39, issue 2, march 2018, pages 179–190] (2019) (0)
Sex and drugs and rock and roll (2021) (0)
Acquiring language. (1997) (0)
Noshpitz Cline History Lecture: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons’ Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (2016) (0)
The logical problem of language acquisition. Edited by C. L. BAKER and JOHN J. MCCARTHY. (Series on cognitive theory and mental representation, 1.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 358. $27.50. (2016) (0)
High Five: My Five Favorite Cartoon Characters (2008) (0)
Strategic Cooperation and the Rise of the Modern World (2011) (0)
A world of silent communication (2000) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Ethnic violence and genocide (2014) (0)
9 STEVEN PINKER ON VIOLENCE AND HUMAN NATURE (2016) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Intimate partner violence (2014) (0)
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker (2011) (0)
WHORF IN THE WILD: NATURALISTIC EVIDENCE FROM HUMAN INTERACTION (2020) (0)
International Journal of Cognitive Science (1997) (0)
Trick behind our speaking ability (2007) (0)
The untenability of faitheism Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible, Jerry Coyne, Viking Penguin, New York, 2015. ISBN: 0670026530. (2015) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Honor and shame (2014) (0)
Virtuous Violence: Warm thanks (2014) (0)
Mind and brain revisited: forestalling the doom of cognitivism (1978) (0)
The General Psychologist - Spring 2006 (2006) (0)
Reply to Biersteker: When methods matter (2015) (0)
How Do We Come Up with Words (2007) (0)
Piled Modifiers, Buried Verbs, and Other Turgid Prose in the American Political Science Review (2021) (0)
Why We Love Sunsets (and Other Cliches) (2007) (0)
Computation of semantic number from morphological information q (2005) (0)
Critical Discussion toward a Consilient Study of Literature (2011) (0)
Steven Pinker. (2004) (0)
The Life of Books (1931) (0)

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