2013.06.30 认知心理学家史蒂芬-平克

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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.

An author and Harvard professor he's been named by Time Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers.

The psychology of violence and where language comes from are just two of his specialist subjects. Bill Gates is officially a fan, the man who sends him hate mail related to his work on irregular verbs is not. It would seem that whenever he publishes yet another best-selling book controversy is never far behind - his recent contention that we live in an "unusually peaceful time" drew opprobrium from many quarters.

Born and brought up in Montreal his parents encouraged vigorous debate around the dinner table - indeed it was his mother's interest in the psychology of language and linguistics that sparked his own.


He says "I appreciate what my parents did for me beyond words. Not in making me what I am, but in my view of what's important in life, what I think about and cherish."



发布日期：2013年06月30日发布时间：一年多以来
克斯蒂-杨本周的弃儿是认知心理学家史蒂芬-平克。

作为一名作家和哈佛大学教授，他被《时代周刊》评为世界上100位最有影响力的科学家和思想家之一。

暴力心理学和语言的来源只是他的两个专业课题。比尔-盖茨是他的正式粉丝，而向他发送与他的不规则动词工作有关的仇恨邮件的人则不是。似乎每当他出版另一本畅销书时，争论就会接踵而至--他最近关于我们生活在一个 "异常和平的时代 "的论点引起了许多方面的反对。

他在蒙特利尔出生并长大，他的父母鼓励他在餐桌上进行激烈的辩论--事实上，正是他母亲对语言心理学和语言学的兴趣激发了他的兴趣。


他说："我非常感谢我的父母为我所做的一切。不是让我成为现在这样的人，而是在我对生活中重要的东西的看法上，在我思考和珍惜的东西上。"