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Scholars Talk Writing: Steven Pinker
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Steven Pinker is about as close as you can come to being an academic celebrity. The Harvard professor of psychology has written seven books for a general readership in addition
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Beyond “Mama” and “Dada”: Why Babies Learn Certain Words
Scientific American Mind: Twila Tardif, a linguist at the University of Michigan, remembers the day she and her Mandarin-speaking babysitter watched as Tardif’s 11-month-old daughter crawled over to a pen that had just fallen on
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How Do Nature And Nurture Combine To Make Us Who We Are?
NPR: Psychologist Steven Pinker describes how far we’ve come in understanding how both nature and nurture make us … us. Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts — the way
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Talking With Your Hands Makes You Learn Things Faster
New York Magazine: One of the funniest things about being a tall, goofy person with a long history of wild gesticulation is that the more animated a conversation gets, the more likely I am to
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Listening to speech has remarkable effects on a baby’s brain
aeon: Imagine how an infant, looking out from her crib or her father’s arms, might see the world. Does she experience a kaleidoscope of shadowy figures looming in and out of focus, and a melange
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How Language ‘Framing’ Influences Decision-Making
The way information is presented, or “framed,” when people are confronted with a situation can influence decision-making.
