Steven Pinker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steven Pinker
Occupation	Psychologist
Date Of Birth	Sep 18, 1954(1954-09-18)
Age	70
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Virgo

Steven Pinker Biography

Steven Pinker is one of the most popular and richest Psychologist who was born on September 18, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A researcher in the field of experimental psychology, cognitive scientist, linguist , and popular science writer known for his pro-evolutionary psychology. A finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2003, for his book The Blank Slate.

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Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1954, to a middle-class Jewish family. His parents were Roslyn (Wiesenfeld) and Harry Pinker. His grandparents emigrated to Canada from Poland and Romania in 1926, and owned a small necktie factory in Montreal. His father, a lawyer, first worked as a manufacturer’s representative, while his mother was first a home-maker then a guidance counselor and high-school vice-principal. He has two younger siblings. His brother Robert is a policy analyst for the Canadian government, while his sister, Susan Pinker, is a psychologist and writer who authored The Sexual Paradox and The Village Effect.

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

He married Rebecca Goldstein in 2007.

Steven Pinker Net Worth

Steven Pinker is one of the richest Psychologist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steven Pinker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1976 from McGill University in 1976.

In his book from 2011 The Better Angels of Our Nature He claimed that violence has declined over the course of time.

He also indicated that the 21st century was applicable because language and usage change over time and it has been a long time since William Strunk wrote Elements of Style.

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Who is Steven Pinker Dating?

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From 1982 until 2003, Pinker taught at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive science (1985–1994), and eventually became the director of the Center for Cognitive neuroscience (1994–1999), taking a one-year sabbatical at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995–96. Since 2003, he has been serving as the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard and between 2008 and 2013 he also held the title of Harvard College Professor in recognition of his dedication to teaching. He currently gives lectures as a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, a private college in London.

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Steven Ranked on the list of most popular Psychologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Steven Pinker celebrates birthday on September 18 of every year.

In 1988 Pinker and Alan Prince published an influential critique of a connectionist model of the acquisition of the past tense (a textbook problem in language acquisition), followed by a series of studies of how people use and acquire the past tense. This included a monograph on children’s regularization of irregular forms and his popular 1999 book, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. Pinker argued that language depends on two things, the associative remembering of sounds and their meanings in words, and the use of rules to manipulate symbols for grammar. He presented evidence against connectionism, where a child would have to learn all forms of all words and would simply retrieve each needed form from memory, in favour of the older alternative theory, the use of words and rules combined by generative phonology. He showed that mistakes made by children indicate the use of default rules to add suffixes such as “-ed”: for instance ‘breaked’ and ‘comed’ for ‘broke’ and ‘came’. He argued that this shows that irregular verb- forms in English have to be learnt and retrieved from memory individually, and that the children making these errors were predicting the regular “-ed” ending in an open-ended way by applying a mental rule. This rule for combining verb stems and the usual suffix can be expressed as Vpast → Vstem + d, where V is a verb and d is the regular ending. Pinker further argued that since the ten most frequently occurring English verbs (be, have, do, say, make … ) are all irregular, while 98.2% of the thousand least common verbs are regular, there is a “massive correlation” of frequency and irregularity. He explains this by arguing that every irregular form, such as ‘took’, ‘came’ and ‘got’, has to be committed to memory by the children in each generation, or else lost, and that the common forms are the most easily memorized. Any irregular verb that falls in popularity past a certain point is lost, and all future generations will treat it as a regular verb instead.

What is Pinker's theory?

Pinker asserts that the universal sequence of language acquisition – wherein children first demonstrate language through babbling, then holophrases (single words expressing an entire thought), and other intermediate stages before, achieving mature language skills – is apparent even in deaf individuals.

What is Steven Pinker known for?

Steven Pinker, in full Steven Arthur Pinker, (born September 18, 1954, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Canadian-born American psychologist who advocated evolutionary explanations for the functions of the brain and thus for language and behaviour.

Who is Steven Pinker's wife?

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What does Steven Pinker teach at Harvard?

Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics.

What is Steven Pinker theory on language acquisition?

Pinker argues that all languages are built on the same universal grammar and that the language mechanism is built into the human brain ; thus the basic structures of language are a part of our biological inheritance.