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Steven Pinker

Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind · psychologist

DescriptionCanadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
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Born1954-09-18
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BirthplaceMontréal Montreal
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AreaUnited States
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CountryUS
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CitizenshipUnited States Canada
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Occupationuniversity teacher psychologist experimental psychologist linguist evolutionary psychologist philosopher non-fiction writer anthropologist author cognitive scientist
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Member ofintellectual dark web American Psychological Association National Academy of Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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AwardsWalter P. Kistler Book Award Troland Research Awards Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society Emperor Has No Clothes Award Kistler Prize William James Fellow Award Richard Dawkins Award Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science Boyd McCandless Award APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Humanist of the Year honorary doctor of the University of Tromso
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