The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
By Steven Pinker. 2007
449 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/07345af932b52407bb3d411058dbba60f05446b9
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Coming of age: A review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics (2012, unknown): “Language is a digital medium that uses features of meaning (such as agency, causation or spatial relations) which necessarily lose some of the richness and complexity of sensory experience (Pinker, 2007).”
- The logic of indirect speech (2008, methodology): “Most generally, indirect speech is a unique window into human social life (4).”
- The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. (2014, background): “…surrounding the problem of mutualistic coordination.1 We focus on a special kind of representation called common knowledge (sometimes called mutual knowledge or common ground; Clark & Marshall, 1981; Clark, 1996; Lewis, 1969; Pinker, 2007; Rubinstein, 1989; Schelling, 1960; Smith, 1982).”
- Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance (2019, background): “In operationalizing the two constructs—interpersonal and intrapersonal heterogeneity—we begin with the premise that organizational culture can be detected in the language used by members (Crémer, Garicano, and Prat, 2007; Pinker, 2007).”
- Pragmatic markers: the missing link between language and Theory of Mind (2020, background): “However, as with the old linguistic relativity hypothesis (Whorf in Carroll 1956), the real question is how deep these cross-linguistic differences run (Pinker 2007; Enfield 2015).”
- Closing coal: economic and moral incentives (2014, background): “Pinker (2007) demonstrates how moral attribution is embedded in language: ‘the concept of causation we apply when choosing our verbs is also the concept we apply when we hold people responsible.”