PSYCHOLOGIST

Steven Pinker

1954 - Today

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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Pinker has received more than 3,694,158 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Steven Pinker is the 132nd most popular psychologist (down from 124th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Canada (down from 100th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Psychologist.

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  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Steven Pinkers by language

Over the past year Steven Pinker has had the most page views in the with 343,139 views, followed by Spanish (31,049), and German (26,656). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (91.01%), Basque (89.43%), and Simple English (86.68%)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Steven Pinker ranks 132 out of 235. Before him are Serge Moscovici, Ovide Decroly, Frans de Waal, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Amos Tversky, and George Kelly. After him are Helene Deutsch, Kurt Goldstein, Havelock Ellis, J. P. Guilford, Henri Wallon, and Brian Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Steven Pinker ranks 109. Before him are Dieter Müller, Chris Noth, Pat Metheny, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Cindy Sherman, and Trevor Berbick. After him are Francisco Guterres, Neil Tennant, Joey DeMaio, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, Vitas Gerulaitis, and Ahmed Dogan.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Steven Pinker ranks 124 out of 1,622. Before him are Bruce Greenwood (1956), Graham Greene (1952), Florence Lawrence (1886), Loreena McKennitt (1957), Eric McCormack (1963), and Mary Simon (1947). After him are William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), Lorne Greene (1915), John Stanley Plaskett (1865), William Osler (1849), Evangeline Lilly (1979), and Gordie Howe (1928).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Canada

Among psychologists born in Canada, Steven Pinker ranks 4. Before him are Albert Bandura (1925), Eric Berne (1910), and Donald O. Hebb (1904). After him are Jordan Peterson (1962), Robert D. Hare (1934), and Gordon Neufeld (1947).

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