Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist. He has written six popular psychology books. He is a Harvard College professor.
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| Born | September 18, 1954 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Spouse | Rebecca Goldstein |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Canada |
| Website | stevenpinker |
Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1954, to a middle-class English-speaking Jewish family.
When he was 13 he became an atheist.[1] Pinker was given the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award on May 13, 2006.
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