Steven Pinker on The Stuff of Thought

Steven Pinker on The Stuff of Thought

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vor 18 Jahren
Harvard psychology professor, Stephen Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought examines how language reveals the way we think by exposing the physics built into our nouns, the temporal characteristics of our verbs and the manner in which our brains react to profanity.
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