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Steven Pinker

Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mindborn 1954

Supervised 9 doctoral students (11 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Stephen Kosslyn as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Steven Pinker, pictured

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Students11

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 21 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.