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 ...

In my recent book, The Language Myth, I investigate one of the dominant themes that has preoccupied the study of language for the last 50 years or so: whether the rudiments of the human capacity for ...

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 ...

A loving relationship can be an oasis in uncertain times, but nurturing it requires attention, honesty, openness, vulnerability, and gratitude. Source: Source: Vyvyan Evans In my recent book, The ...

The Language Myth is written for a general audience—not specifically professional linguists—and takes the form of an evidence-based rebuttal of aspects of the world-view developed in the popular, best ...

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, and the the ...