How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker

born 1954 · Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind

• Professor at Harvard
• Professor at MIT
• Professor at Stanford

Profession

Psychologist, Linguist, Professor

Worked at

Harvard, Stanford, MIT, University of California, Santa Barbara

Studied at

Harvard, McGill, Dawson College

Studied under

Stephen Kosslyn

Prizes

APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1984), Boyd McCandless Award (1986), Troland Research Awards (1993), Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2004), Walter P. Kistler Book Award (2005), Humanist of the Year (2006), Richard Dawkins Award (2013), William James Fellow Award (2016), Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science (2018), Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Kistler Prize

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