Susan Pinker

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Susan Pinker
Susan Pinker giving a talk in São Paulo, 2017
Born1957
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materMcGill University
Known forThe Sexual Paradox, The Village Effect
AwardsWilliam James Prize
Scientific career
FieldsClinical psychology, developmental psychology
InstitutionsDawson College, McGill University

Susan Pinker is a psychologist, author and social science columnist for

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.[1]

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, behavioral economics and social psychology to the world of business. They appeared weekly in The Globe and Mail from 2003 to 2011.[2]

Pinker's book,

physical science, law, engineering, and politics. In explaining this ratio, Pinker's stance is that discrimination
plays just a small part. If the majority of children with school and behavioral problems are boys, then why do so many overcome early obstacles, while rafts of high achieving women choose jobs that pay less or opt out at pivotal moments in their careers?

The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier and Smarter, combines narrative nonfiction with science reporting to explore how our social bonds, face-to-face contact, and networks affect our thinking, learning, happiness, resilience and

Spiegel and Grau in the US, Atlantic Books in the UK, Charactery in Poland, Book21 in Korea,[3]
Cheers Media in China, and Batik Yayincilik in Turkey. It was selected as an Apple Nonfiction "Best Pick" in 2014.

Awards

Her 2008 book, The Sexual Paradox, was awarded the William James Book Award by the American Psychological Association in 2009.[4] Her 2014 book, The Village Effect, was selected as an Apple Nonfiction Best Pick in 2014.[citation needed]

In 2014, Susan was given the Holden Award by the International Society for Intelligence Research. In 2015 she was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University.

Her writing has also been recognized in awards from the

BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
(2009).

Personal life

Pinker is married and has three children. She lives in

evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker.[6]

References

  1. ^ "About The Author". Susan Pinker. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  2. ^ Globe columnist wins award, SusanPinker.com, May 15, 2015
  3. ^ "The Village Effect". Susan Pinker. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  4. ^ "William James Book Award". American Psychological Association. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  5. ^ “Susan Pinker Can Help You Understand the Opposite Sex.” Susan Pinker can help you understand the opposite sex - The Jewish Chronicle, November 24, 2016. https://www.thejc.com/news/susan-pinker-can-help-you-understand-the-opposite-sex-lxc30r4x.
  6. ^ "About | Steven Pinker". 2021-10-28. Archived from the original on 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2021-10-30.

External links

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