2026 Steven Pinker: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	79	1475	1318	879	765	204	76667

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his significant contributions to the fields of visual perception and the acquisition and evolutionary basis of language.
1992 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steven Pinker is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their recent research contributions span several topics in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, hepatology, social psychology, and safety research.

Key research topics covered in their work include:

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Cultural Differences and Values
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Academic integrity and plagiarism
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Neuroscience and Music Perception
Music and Audio Processing

The following recent papers by Steven Pinker and collaborators illustrate their diverse research interests and publication activity:

"The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda" (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Sex and drugs and rock and roll" (2021), Behavioral and Brain Sciences
"Enlightenment Environmentalism: A Humanistic Response to Climate Change" (2021), Journal of applied corporate finance
"Joint statement in support of hepatitis C human challenge studies" (2023), The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology

Frequent co-authors contributing to their publications include:

David M. Buss
Harvey J. Alter
Eleanor Barnes
Mia J. Biondi
Andrea L. Cox

Steven Pinker's publications appear regularly in venues such as:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of applied corporate finance
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
PS Political Science & Politics

They have received several recognitions and fellowships throughout their career, including:

William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2016)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2016)
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2006)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)
Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences (1993) for significant contributions to visual perception and the evolutionary basis of language
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (1992)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1987)

Best Publications

How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker

11094
Citations
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

7357
Citations
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

4820
Citations
Natural language and natural selection

Steven Pinker;Paul Bloom

3883
Citations
On The Language Instinct

Steven Pinker

3440
Citations
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Steven Pinker

3259
Citations
Language learnability and language development

Steven Pinker

2913
Citations
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Steven Pinker

2697
Citations
On language and connectionism: analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition

Steven Pinker

2630
Citations
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Nolan Miller;Gerda Oldham;Steven Pinker

2219
Citations
The faculty of language: what's special about it? ☆

Steven Pinker;Ray Jackendoff

2014
Citations
Overregularization in Language Acquisition

Marcus Gf;Pinker S;Ullman M;Hollander M

1531
Citations
Rules of language

Stephen Pinker

1479
Citations
The past and future of the past tense

Steven Pinker;Michael T. Ullman

1323
Citations
A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system

Michael T. Ullman;Suzanne Corkin;Marie Coppola;Gregory Hickok

1240
Citations
Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition

Michael J Tarr;Steven Pinker

1178
Citations
Learnability and cognition

Steven Pinker

944
Citations
German inflection: The exception that proves the rule

Gary F. Marcus;Ursula Brinkmann;Harald Clahsen;Richard Wiese

914
Citations
The how, what, and why of mental imagery

Stephen M. Kossyln;Steven Pinker;George E. Smith;Steven P. Shwartz

890
Citations
The language instinct : the new science of language and mind

Steven Pinker

730
Citations
The language instinct : how the mind creates language

Steven Pinker

429
Citations
Language Learnability and Language Development

Clifton Pye;Steven Pinker

156
Citations
The Past-Tense Debate The past and future of the past tense

Steven Pinker;Michael T. Ullman

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. Ullman Georgetown University

Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University

Tune H. Pers University of Copenhagen

Gail Davies University of Edinburgh

Najaf Amin University of Oxford

Tonu Esko University of Tartu

Peter M. Visscher University of Oxford

Lude Franke University Medical Center Groningen

David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh

Caroline Hayward University of Edinburgh

External Links

Wikipedia of Steven Pinker Personal website of Steven Pinker

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