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As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker’s fascination is how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.

Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of life’s enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to avoid common knowledge—to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can’t know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room.

In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows… invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each other’s heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.

CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Pinker EAN: 9780241618837 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 384 WEIGHT: 400 g HEIGHT:

PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-09-23 CITY: GENRE: Non-fiction WIDTH: SPINE:

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If Pinker's ideas become common knowledge, we'll be far better equipped to handle the massive disruptions already arriving in our hyper-networked world An expository masterpiece. Steven Pinker explains, with beautiful clarity, how common knowledge is critical to successful human interaction When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...is one of the most insightful books I've read about what makes us human and how we understand each other. It changed how I think about the interactions I have, and I bet it will do the same for you ― Bill Gates Think you know what others think about what you are thinking? It turns out you're probably wrong. And thanks to When Everyone Knows, now we know why. Once you read this book, you'll never view human behavior quite the same way again A masterful look behind the curtain at the calculations that propel us forward. With his brilliant knack for exposing what we take for granted, celebrated cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker explores, among many phenomena, our very human tendency to reveal information strategically, only letting others see what we want them to see A lively exposition of one of the most important and basic concepts in game theory, and the surprising ways it plays out in human affairs Insight packed. With brisk authority, Pinker shows that a key aspect of being human, sociality, depends on a mutual understanding of intentions, which allows us to make sense of responses like laughing and blushing and phenomena as various as myth-making and online cancel culture

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won many prizes for his teaching, his research on language, cognition, and social relations, and his twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.”

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CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Pinker EAN: 9780241618837 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 384 WEIGHT: 400 g HEIGHT:

PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-09-23 CITY: GENRE: Non-fiction WIDTH: SPINE:

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