On Sept. 29, Harvard Professor Steven Pinker sat down at the First Parish Church to discuss his most recent book on common ...

Common knowledge refers to beliefs that are commonly held, and that people know to be commonly held. Sometimes these beliefs ...

Steven Pinker, Aleks Krotoski and David Edmonds discuss the paradoxes of human behaviour, altruism and immortality, with Adam Rutherford.

How have the unsaid understandings between us shaped our world – society, history, culture? In his new book, the Harvard psychologist digs for answers.

Source: Scribner / Used with permission. In a New Yorker cartoon about marital relations, a husband tells his wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to ...

You can always tell when someone is able to use common sense in most situations they find themselves in. It's not about how intelligent they are and how many books they read; rather, it's about their ...

Dannagal G. Young was a co-investigator on an NIH grant that provided funding for one of the studies referenced in this piece. It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced ...