The show talks with evolutionary psychologist and author Steven Pinker about his new book, "The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window into Human Nature." Pinker is a professor of psychology at ...

In his latest book, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker looks at language and what it tells us about the way we think. Language, he argues, reflects the very nature of our brain structure.

Number of words in Funk & Wagnall's New Unabridged Dictionary: 450,000.Number of words in vocabulary of average high school graduate: 60,000. Number of distinct words in Shakespeare's collected works: ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, best-selling author and Harvard professor. Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist and best-selling author of more than a dozen books on why we behave the way ...

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Readers react to Steven ...