Steven Arthur Pinker (born 18 September 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author.

Involvement with effective altruism

Pinker has described effective altruism as "one of the great new ideas of the 21st century",^[1] and has written that "movements that aim to spread scientific sophistication such as […] effective altruism have a vast potential to enhance human welfare."^[2] He has also collaborated with Harvard Effective Altruism and has expressed support for Giving What We Can.^[3]