Here, Shermer ran into the same wall that Better Angels of Our Nature author Steven Pinker and other scientific optimists ...

Other faculty members disagree. Steven Pinker, psychology professor, and Jeffrey Flier, professor of medicine, wrote in an ...

There’s still much to be learned about our prehistory. But we can’t help using it to explain the societies we have or to ...

Steven Pinker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Among many other subjects, he researches and explores cognition, language and the history of human violence.

Steven Pinker doesn’t buy into the disheartening conclusion that we are suffering from a collective failure of rationality. In his new book, Rationality: What it is, why it seems scarce ...

In the vibrant landscape of human languages, the story of Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) stands out as a mesmerizing tale of ...

Despite the constant news of violence, from mass shootings to wars, psychologist Steven Pinker believes we may be living in the most peaceful period in human existence. Could it be true that physical ...

Q: Can you talk about our origins in Africa? A: The genetic evidence suggests that we evolved in Africa. We know that people reached Australia by forty thousand years ago, maybe earlier, which ...

In 2023, he shared, with Steven Pinker, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences.

In a range of reactions, some readers recall their days of campus protest against the Vietnam War and apartheid in South ...

But when Gore runs across a description of the Holocaust, nothing Steven Pinker might argue in “The Better Angels of Our ...

This genetic predisposition to language had gained such support that it made it to the NBC Nightly News, where Tom Brokaw ...