Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and popular science author known for his work on language, mind, and human nature, advocating evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.[3][2] Born in Montreal to a secular Jewish family, he earned a BA from McGill University in 1976 and a PhD from Harvard in 1979, later teaching at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT before becoming the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard.[2][6] He gained prominence with books like The Language Instinct (1994) and How the Mind Works (1997), exploring innate language abilities and evolutionary bases of behavior.[1][3]