Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954, Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian-born American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author. He is a Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker's academic specializations are visual cognitio... More

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