Oct. 07, 2011
Is Human Violence On The Wane?
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Considering the Norway shootings, drug wars in Mexico and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, this era may seem as violent as any. But as Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, this may actually be the most peaceable period in human history. |
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Steven Pinker
Author, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" (Viking, 2011)
Harvard College Professor of Psychology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
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