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[[File:Steven Pinker Göttingen 10102010a.JPG|thumb|270px|right|Pinker in [[Göttingen]], 2010]]
 
Pinker was named one of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'s'{{'}}s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004<ref name="mBNcF">[http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/media/2004_04_26_time.htm "Steven Pinker: How Our Minds Evolved" by Robert Wright] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230145614/http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/about/media/2004_04_26_time.htm |date=December 30, 2005}} ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' Accessed February 8, 2006.</ref> and one of ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'' and ''[[Foreign Policy]]''{{'}}s 100 top public intellectuals in both years the poll was carried out, 2005<ref name="YDmcP">[https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3249 "The Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201221925/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3249 |date=December 1, 2009}} ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' (free registration required) Accessed 2006-02-08</ref> and 2008;<ref name="PTNV9">{{cite web|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/prospect-100-intellectuals/ |title=Intellectuals |work=Prospect |year=2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930143349/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/prospect-100-intellectuals/ |archive-date=September 30, 2009}}</ref> in 2010 and 2011 he was named by ''Foreign Policy'' to its list of top global thinkers.<ref name="xWJSV">{{cite web | url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,40 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers (2010) |year=2010 | work=Foreign Policy |publisher=Foreignpolicy.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203002250/https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,40 |archive-date=December 3, 2010 |quote=69. Steven Pinker}}</ref><ref name="79mX3">{{cite web | url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,36#thinker48 | title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers (2011) |year=2011 | work=Foreign Policy |publisher=Foreignpolicy.com | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130074405/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,36#thinker48 |quote=48. Steven Pinker: For Looking on Bright Side | archive-date=January 30, 2012}}</ref> In 2016, he was elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="uVLcW">{{citation|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|title=National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected|department=News from the National Academy of Sciences|publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]]|date=May 3, 2016|access-date=May 14, 2016|archive-date=May 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506052951/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|url-status=live}}.</ref>
 
His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award (1984) and Boyd McCandless Award (1986) from the [[American Psychological Association]], the [[Troland Research Awards|Troland Research Award]] (1993) from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], the Henry Dale Prize (2004) from the [[Royal Institution of Great Britain]], and the George Miller Prize (2010) from the [[Cognitive Neuroscience Society]]. He has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of [[Newcastle University|Newcastle]], [[University of Surrey|Surrey]], [[Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv]], [[McGill University|McGill]], [[Simon Fraser University]] and the [[University of Tromsø]]. He was twice a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize]], in 1998 and in 2003. Pinker received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1999.<ref name="7xkxH">{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration|access-date=June 30, 2020|archive-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608012051/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration|url-status=live}}</ref> On May 13, 2006, he received the [[American Humanist Association]]'s Humanist of the Year award for his contributions to public understanding of human evolution.<ref name="AHA-PressRelease">{{cite news | url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/pinker.php | title=Steven Pinker Receives Humanist of the Year Award | publisher=[[American Humanist Association]] | date=May 12, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615043739/http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/pinker.php | archive-date=June 15, 2006}}</ref> For 2022 he was awarded the [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in the category of "Humanities and Social Sciences".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ |title=BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2022 |access-date=March 9, 2023 |archive-date=September 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921232238/https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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