# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-pinker
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:51:07.604Z

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name: "Steven Pinker"
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description: "Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University."
tagline: "Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind"
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birthDate: "1954-09-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump