Steven Pinker Audio & Video

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

Steven Pinker shatters some commonly held assumptions about the violence of our times showing how in actuality we live in the least violent time in human history.

In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind.

New York Times bestselling author Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how words explain human nature.

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.

Bestselling author Ian McEwan, known for Atonement and The Children Act joins Harvard professor of Psychology Steven Pinker for a discussion of McEwan's latest novel, Nutshell, a tale of betrayal and murder, from one of the world's master storytellers.

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker talked about his life and career.

Why don't people just say what they mean? In this lecture, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker explains the paradoxical appeal of euphemism, innuendo, politeness, and other forms of shilly-shallying.

The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.

How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar.