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en-wikipedia-org-7790		The Stuff of Thought - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1128	169	64	The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature Cover of the first edition The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature is a 2007 book by experimental psychologist Steven Pinker. In the book Pinker "analyzes how our words relate to thoughts and to the world around us and reveals what this tells us about ourselves".[1] Put another way, Pinker "probes the mystery of human nature by examining how we use words".[2] The book became a New York Times best seller. For example, a common-place statement such as "If you could pass the salt, that would be great" functions both as a request (though formally not a request) and as a means of being polite or non-offensive (through not directing the audience to overt demands). Steven Pinker's Harvard Department of Psychology website Books by Steven Pinker Center for Evolutionary Psychology Evolutionary psychology research groups and centers	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7790.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7790.txt