Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard … Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1954, to a middle-class secular Jewish family in an English-speaking community.
Pinker:
“cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual”