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Pinker
Pinker may refer to: People * George Pinker (1924–2007), British obstetrician and gynecologist * Rachel Pinker, American meteorologist * Robert Pinker (1931–2021), British sociologist *Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychology, cognitive psychologist, psycholinguistics, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psycholo ... (born 1954), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author * Susan Pinker (born 1957), Canadian developmental psychologist Bands * Horace Pinker, American punk rock band * The Pinker Tones, alternative pop band from Barcelona, Spain {{surname, disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychology, cognitive psychologist, psycholinguistics, 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. He specializes in visual cognition and developmental linguistics, and his experimental topics include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, regularity and irregularity in language, the neural basis of words and grammar, and childhood language development. Other experimental topics he works on are the psychology of cooperation and of communication, including emotional expression, euphemism, innuendo, and how people use "common knowledge", a term of art meaning the shared understanding in which two or more people know something, know that the other one knows, know the other one knows that they know, and so on. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pinker
Robert Arthur Pinker (27 May 1931 – 2 February 2021) was a British sociologist and press regulator. Early life and family Robert Arthur Pinker was born on 27 May 1931, the son of Dora Elizabeth Pinker and Joseph Pinker. In 1955, he married Jennifer Farrington Boulton, who died in 1994; they had two daughters."Pinker, Prof. Robert Arthur " ''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 1 February 2018. Career Academia After attending Holloway County School, Pinker went to the London School of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), initially receiving a Certificate in Social Science and Administration in 1959, and then completing a Bachelor of Science degree (BSc) ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Pinker
Susan Pinker is a Canadian psychologist, author, and social science columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal''. She is a former weekly columnist for ''The Globe and Mail'', and has also written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', and '' The Times of London''. Her first book, '' The Sexual Paradox'', was awarded the William James Book Award in 2010 and was published in 17 countries. Her book ''The Village Effect'' was a Canadian bestseller and an Apple 2014 nonfiction best pick. Her work has been featured in ''The Economist'', ''The Financial Times'', and ''Der Spiegel''. Career Pinker spent 25 years in clinical practice and teaching psychology, first at Dawson College, then at McGill University. Pinker writes about new findings in behavioral science in the Mind and Matter column, which appears Saturdays in the ''Wall Street Journal''. Her ''Globe and Mail'' columns, Problem Solving and the Business Brain, applied the latest evidence from the fields of neuroscience, beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pinker
Sir George Douglas Pinker, KCVO (6 December 1924 – 29 April 2007) was an internationally respected obstetrician and gynecologist, best known for modernizing the delivery of royal babies. Early life George Douglas Pinker was born on 6 December 1924 in Calcutta, India, the second son of Queenie Elizabeth née Dix and Ronald Douglas Pinker, a horticulturist who worked for Suttons Seeds for 40 years, and headed the bulb and flower department for 25 years. At the time of George's birth he ran Sutton Seeds Indian Branch in Calcutta. His older brother Kenneth Hubert was born in Reading on 15 September 1919. Education From 1928 aged four, Pinker was educated at Reading School. In 1942, he began medical training at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington, London, qualifying as a doctor in 1947. As a student in 1946, when the Music Society put on its first post-war production ''The Mikado'', he sang one of the leading roles. He turned down a contract with the D'Oyly Carte Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Pinker
Horace Pinker is an American punk rock band formed in 1991 in Tempe, Arizona and based in Chicago, Illinois. They combine a pop-punk sound with political lyrics. Horace Pinker has played in over 21 countries including Brazil, China and Australia. They have played in festivals including the Dynamo Open Air in the Netherlands, Popkomm in Germany, Belgium’s Groezrock, 2007 Vans Zona Punk Tour in Brazil, PouzzaFest in Montreal and The Fest 11 in Gainesville, FL. They have appeared on over 30 compilations albums, 12 EPs (including a split with Face To Face and an EP on Fat Wreck Chords), the DVD video compilations Cinema Beer Nuts (Hopeless) and Punk Broadcast System (Cold front), plus various features in TV shows and magazines. They have toured for the releases of Power Tools (Justice), Burn Tempe To The Ground (One foot), Pop Culture Failure (Jump Up!), Copper Regret (Cold front), Red-Eyed Regular (Off Time), Texas One Ten (Thick), Carnival Nostalgia: 2000-2006 (Enemy One) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Pinker
Rachel T. Pinker is a professor of meteorology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has worked since 1976. Education Pinker received her M.S. degree from Hebrew University in 1965 and her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1976. Research Pinker is known for her research into global dimming Global dimming is a decline in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface. It is caused by atmospheric particulate matter, predominantly sulfate aerosols, which are components of air pollution. Global dimming was observed soon after t ... and global brightening. She has said that the Earth seems to be getting brighter, and that this may be because of a combination of a clearer sky and fewer clouds. References External links * American meteorologists University of Maryland, College Park faculty Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Women meteorologists University of Maryland, College Park alumni Year of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
