Short Biography
Steven Pinker, a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University
in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching
at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor
of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won
the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize from
the Royal Institute of Great Britan, and two prizes from
the American Psychological Association. He has also received several honorary
doctorates and numerous awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching,
general achievement, and his critically acclaimed books The Language Instinct,
How the Mind Works, and
The Blank Slate. Pinker has also appeared in many
television documentaries and writes frequently in the popular press, including in
The New York Times, Time, and The New Republic.
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