Psychology Of Innuendo: Free Steven Pinker Lecture | Berkeley

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Renowned experimental psychologist Steven Pinker will deliver the Charles M. & Martha Hitchcock Lectures at UC Berkeley campus on February 4 and 5, 2014.

Steven Pinker is one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature.

• February 4, 2014: “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined”
  
• February 5, 2014: “The Elephant in the Room: The Psychology of Innuendo and Euphemism.”
  Why don’t people just say what they mean? In his second lecture, Steven Pinker explains the paradoxical appeal of euphemism, innuendo, politeness, and other forms of shilly-shallying.
  

Both lectures are free and open to the public and no tickets are required.

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