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.

Have Strunk & White saddled us with a grammar more suited to a different century? Earlier this week, Harvard University psycholinguistic professor Steven Pinker stopped by with his new book, The Sense ...

In his last outing, How the Mind Works, the author of the well-received The Language Instinct made a case for evolutionary psychology—or the view that human beings have a hard-wired nature that ...

Steven Pinker—the Harvard cognitive scientist who also chairs the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary—is not a fan of many of the “rules” one finds in modern guides to grammar and usage, ...

Steven Pinker is a man stuffed with thoughts and gifted with language, a combination that has won him an unusually wide audience. In 1995, he published The Language Instinct, which was not just a best ...

The author of five trade science books — “The Language Instinct,” “How the Mind Works,” “Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language,” “The Blank Slate” and now, “The Stuff of Thought” — is no ...

Listen to this episode of The Moment with guest Bryan Garner: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS Feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman’s guest is Bryan Garner, author, ...

As an experimental psychologist, Steven Pinker thinks about writing. As a linguist, he thinks about writing. In The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, the ...

Are we headed to hell in a handcart? If paralysis in government and violence at home aren't carrying us in that direction, then climate change and terrorism abroad might. Or so it seems. To the rescue ...

No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation Audio By Carbonatix Steven Pinker is a brilliant cognitive psychologist based out of Harvard. As a scientist he’s done important research on ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Steven Pinker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology ...