The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

By S. Hannabuss. 2008

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans (2009, background): “But scratch the surface of action understanding and it is immediately clear that the problem is not that simple (Pinker, 1989, 2007).”
What Is Physical Literacy, Really? (2015, background): “Pinker (2007) drew on psychology and linguistics to illustrate how the structure of language reflects the workings of the thinking brain.”
(I'm) Happy to Help (You): The Impact of Personal Pronoun Use in Customer–Firm Interactions (2018, methodology): “…agent responses to bogus customer emails (N = 40) Pilot Study 2 “I” .94 “You” 6.04 “We” 4.83 Comparison Samples English language global mean (N = 721,726) Pennebaker et al. (2007) “I” 5.72 17.99 *** “You” 1.18 −14.57 *** “We” .76 −9.06 *** Oral conversation in unstructured real-world settings (N =…”
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought (2008, background): “Pinker’s 1994 discussion, which he later dubbed his “obituary” for the Whorfian hypothesis (Pinker, 2007, p. 124), reviews standard arguments against both the idea that we think in language and the idea that language shapes thought.”
Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences (2012, background): “But Fuck you cannot: *I said to fuck you; *Don’t fuck you; *Go fuck you, and so forth (Zwicky, Salus, Binnick, & Vanek, 1971; see also Pinker, 2007).”
The Social Brain, Language, and Goal-Directed Collective Thinking: A Social Conception of Cognition and Its Implications for Understanding How We Think, Teach, and Learn (2013, background): “…language is thoroughly integrated with other important nonlinguistic aspects of thinking is, of course, at odds with some influential views on language and cognition, notably of those who remain committed to a view of language as a discrete cognitive “module” or capacity (e.g., Pinker, 1994, 2007).”
Framework for understanding marine ecosystem health (2013, background): “Metaphors are important in human speech and thought (Pinker 2007).”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “Language and the ability to accurately throw high-speed projectiles, for example, are uniquely human adaptations that are properly regarded as fundamental aspects of human nature (Pinker, 2007; Pinker & Bloom, 1992; Roach, Venkadesan, Rainbow, & Lieberman, 2013).”
Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning (2011, unknown): “think about and solve real-world problems [14].”
Knowledge of animal appearance among sighted and blind adults (2019, background): “However, language and vision are not equivalent sources of information about what things look like (21, 17, 30, 31).”