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Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of
Pinker in 2023
Pinker in 2011
Pinker at CSICon in 2018, hosted by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Pinker lecturing to humanists in the United Kingdom (2018)
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined in both the short and the long term and a
Steven Pinker
…behavior shaped by natural selection and adapted to our communication needs. The Sense of Style (2014) is a general language-oriented style guide. The Better Angels of Our Nature (2010) posits that violence in human societies has generally declined over time, and identifies six major trends and five historical forces of this…
Cover of the first edition