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, 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 ...

Renowned MIT linguist Steven Pinker engaged an audience of 400 in the classic nature versus nurture debate last night—saying heredity plays a more dominant role than many behaviorists of the last ...

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 ...

Elementary-school students learning how to write simultaneously learn the rules of grammar, and the two approaches can be difficult to balance. It's why many teachers ingrain in their students a ...

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 ...

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 ...