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, ...

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.

Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family professor of psychology at Harvard, didn’t coin “language maven” (William Safire did, back in the ’70s, to describe himself), but he did more than anyone else to ...

Bestselling Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Blank Slate) investigates what the words we use tell us about the way we think. Language, he concludes, reflects our brain structure, which itself ...

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone professor of psychology at Harvard University. His experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...

As we traveled the world investigating what makes us human, we always were sure to ask our interviewees just what they think the human spark is. While there was plenty of overlap, there were also a ...

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone professor of psychology at Harvard University. His experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two ...