Steven Arthur Pinker (Montréal, 18 shtator 1954) është një docent psikologjie në Harvard University si dhe autor i librave të ndryshëm rreth tellallisjes shkencore.^[1]

Pinker njihet për punën e vet mbi procesin e të nxënit të gjuhës tek fëmija dhe për zhvillimin e (mëtejshëm të) teorisë së Noam Chomskyt rreth gjuhës si një zhvillim natyror i një procesi evolutiv.

Livri i tij The Blank Slate ka qenë finalist për Çmimin Pulitzer. Në vitin 2004 Pinker u tregua nga revista Time si një prej 100 personave me më shumë ndikim në botë. Libri i tij i fundit titullohet The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011).^[2]

• Language Learnability and Language Development (1984) ISBN 978-0-674-51055-5
• Visual Cognition (1985) ISBN 978-0-262-66178-2
• Connections and Symbols (1988) ISBN 978-0-262-66064-8
• Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989) ISBN 978-0-262-66073-0
• Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1992) ISBN 978-1-55786-354-6
• The Language Instinct (1994) ISBN 978-0-06-097651-4
• How the Mind Works (1997) ISBN 978-0-393-31848-7
• Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999) ISBN 978-0-465-07269-9
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) ISBN 978-0-670-03151-1
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing (editor and introduction author, 2004) ISBN 978-0-618-24698-4
• Hotheads (an extract from How the Mind Works, 2005) ISBN 978-0-14-102238-3
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007) ISBN 978-0-670-06327-7
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011) ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3
• Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles (2013) ISBN 978-0-19-932874-1
• The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (September 30, 2014) ISBN 978-0-670-02585-5

• Selective compilation of articles and other works, hosted at Harvard faculty pages
• Pinker, S. (1991). "Rules of Language". Science. 253 (5019): 530–535. doi:10.1126/science.1857983. {{cite journal}}: Mungon ose është bosh parametri |language= (Ndihmë!)
• Ullman, M.; Corkin, S.; Coppola, M.; Hickok, G.; Growdon, J. H.; Koroshetz, W. J.; Pinker, S. (1997). "A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 9: 289–299. {{cite journal}}: Mungon ose është bosh parametri |language= (Ndihmë!)
• Pinker, S. (2003) "Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche" In M. Christiansen & S. Kirby (Eds.), Language evolution: States of the Art New York: Oxford University Press.
• Pinker, S. (2005). "So How Does the Mind Work?". Mind and Language. 20 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1111/j.0268-1064.2005.00274.x. {{cite journal}}: Mungon ose është bosh parametri |language= (Ndihmë!)
• Jackendoff, R.; Pinker, S. (2005). "The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language" (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky)". Cognition. 97 (2): 211–225. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.04.006. {{cite journal}}: Mungon ose është bosh parametri |language= (Ndihmë!)
• Pinker, S. (2007), "In Defense of Dangerous Ideas" Chicago Sun-Times, July 15, 2007
• Pinker, S. (2012). The False Allure of Group Selection. Edge, Jun 19, 2012.
• Pinker, S. (2013). Science Is Not Your Enemy. The New Republic, Aug 6, 2013.
• Pinker, S. (2014). The Trouble With Harvard: The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it. The New Republic, Sep 4, 2014.

1. ^ cite_ref-1 Steven Pinker – About. Department of Psychology Harvard University Arkivuar 3 qershor 2015 tek Wayback Machine Accessed 28 February 2010.
2. ^ cite_ref-http://iai.tv/video/the-decline-of-violence_2-0 Pinker, Steven. "The Decline of Violence". IAI. Marrë më 3 janar 2014. {{cite web}}: Mungon ose është bosh parametri |language= (Ndihmë!)

Wikiquote ka thënie në lidhje me Steven Pinker

Wikimedia Commons ka materiale multimediale në lidhje me Steven Pinker.

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• 7th Avenue interview on "Better Angels", 2014
• Steven Pinker on The Hour
• Steven Pinker Multimedia Arkivuar 3 mars 2016 tek Wayback Machine audio and video files
• Mosaic Science (Wellcome) interview Arkivuar 3 korrik 2015 tek Wayback Machine