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2015
Pinker, S. (2015). Many of the alleged rules of writing are actually superstitions. The Guardian.
Pinker, S. (2015). Now for the good news: things really are getting better. The Guardian.
Pinker, S. (2015). The Moral Imperative for Bioethics. Boston Globe.
Pinker, S. (2015). The untenability of faitheism. Current Biology , 25 (15).
Pinker, S. (2015). Guess what? More people are living in peace now. Just look at the numbers. The Guardian. Full Text.
Pinker, S. (2015). Rock Star Psychologist Steven Pinker Explains Why #TheDress Looked White, Not Blue. Forbes.com.
Pinker, S. (2015). Why free speech is fundamental. The Boston Globe.
Pinker, S. (2015). Shakespeare: One of the first and greatest psychologists. The Atlantic.
Pinker, S. (2015). Response to the Book Review Symposium: Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature. Sociology. PDF
2014
Reed, L., DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2014). The commitment function of angry facial expressions. Psychological Science , 25 (8), 1511-1517.
Pinker, S., & Mack, A. (2014). The world is not falling apart. Slate.
Ronen, S., Gonçalves, B., Hu, K., Vespignani, A., Pinker, S., & Hidalgo, C. (2014). Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame. PNAS.
Pinker, S. (2014). Passive Resistance - The active voice isn't always the best choice. The Atlantic.
Pinker, S. (2014). Why academics stink at writing. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Thomas, K., DeScioli, P., Sultan Haque, O., & Pinker, S. (2014). The Psychology of Coordination and Common Knowledge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 107 (4), 657-676. PDF
Pinker, S. (2014). The Source of Bad Writing. The Wall Street Journal.
Reitveld, C., Esko, T., Pinker, S., & et al,. (2014). Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using theproxy-phenotype method. PNAS. PDF
Pinker, S. (2014). The Trouble with Harvard: The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it. The New Republic.
van der Lely, H. K. J., & Pinker, S. (2014). The biological basis of language: insight from developmental grammatical impairments. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PDF
Pinker, S. (2014). Mind Games - Pop Quiz Psychology. New York Times.

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