Steven Pinker: The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball
[43:38] William James Fellow Award Address recorded May 2016 in Chicago at the 28th Annual Convention of the Associati…
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Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
[50:00] Steven Pinker – Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and Linguist at Harvard University How did humans …
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Those 7 Steven Pinker Flawless Victories
[12:15] These seven clips with Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker will get you thinking. There is likely no one …
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Steven Pinker: A.I. Apocalypse: More Myth Than Reality
[2:27] Steven Pinker believes there’s some interesting gender psychology at play when it comes to the robopoca…
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Steven Pinker On Reason
[7:30] Steven Pinker talks about his personal philosophy and what reason means to him. [Source: Big Think YouTube li…
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Steven Pinker on The Decline of Violence & “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
[9:48] You are less likely to die a violent death today than at any other time in human history. In fact, violence has been …
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Steven Pinker: The Past, Present and Future of Violence
[1:16:51] Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His res…
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Steven Pinker: How Children Learn Language
[3:18] In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Professor Steven Pinker deduces the nature of languag…
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Steven Pinker: Geno’s Paradox
[10:14] Steve Pinker shares some of the very latest research on genes, hereditary, intelligence, personality and nat…
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Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason
[15:23] Here’s a TED first: an animated Socratic dialog! In a time when irrationality seems to rule both politic…
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