Steven Pinker
Författare till The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Om författaren
Steven Pinker is an authority on language and the mind. He is Peter de Florez professor of psychology in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Steven Arthur Pinker was born on September 18, 1954 in Canada. visa mer He is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is a psychology professor at Harvard University. He is the author of several non-fiction books including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award in 1984 and Boyd McCandless Award in 1986 from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award in 1993 from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize in 2004 from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize in 2010 from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and in 2003. In 2006, he received the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award for his contributions to public understanding of human evolution. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Pinker, Steven
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Pinker, Steven Arthur
- Födelsedag
- 1954-09-18
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
Canada (birth) - Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Utbildning
- Dawson College (1973)
McGill University (BA|1976| Psychology)
Harvard University (Ph.D|1979 ∙ Experimental Psychology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Postdoc) - Yrken
- cognitive scientist
linguist
popular science author
university professor - Relationer
- Goldstein, Rebecca (spouse)
Kosslyn, Stephen A. (doctoral advisor)
Pinker, Susan (sister) - Organisationer
- Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University - Priser och utmärkelser
- Troland Award, National Academy of Sciences (1993)
Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institute of Great Britain (2004)
Humanist of the Year (2006)
Kistler Prize (2005)
Richard Dawkins Award (2013)
William James Fellow Award (2016) (visa alla 12)
National Academy of Sciences (2016)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)
Boyd McCandless Award (1986)
George Miller Prize (2010)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
Golden Plate Award (1998, 2003) - Agent
- David Lavin Agency
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