V.O. Complete. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. Steven Pinker

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Visit our website: https://aprendemosjuntos.bbva.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6QcXatdaEAaRTRjl3dc0w Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aprendemosjuntosbbva/ Follow us on Facebook: http://fb.com/aprendemosjuntosBBVA Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aprendemosjuntosbbva?_t=8q4wz5Xt8bI&_r=1 Follow us on X: http://twitter.com/aprenderjuntos_ Listen to our podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/07rXxtOlzNI0NuB8vpAgvE In this video, Pinker shares some of his ideas on rationality and human behavior. Should we always heed rationality? How important is confidence? What role do emotions play in decision-making? The Canadian scholar addresses these questions and others in order to offer us insight into his unique way of thinking about and interpreting the world. Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist who writes about language, the mind and human nature. He studied at McGill University and earned his doctorate at Harvard. He has given classes at Stanford and MIT and currently holds the ‘Johnstone Family Professorship’ in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His research on vision, language and social relations has earned him recognition from prestigious institutions such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the American Psychological Institution and an award from the Association for Psychological Science. He has also received various honorary doctorates and numerous awards for his books The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, The Better Angles of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. He recently published Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. Pinker was named Humanist of the Year in 2006 and has been included in Foreign Policy’s “100 Global Thinkers” and Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today”. #AprendemosJuntos2030