#common-knowledge tag

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Psychology

Steven Pinker on The Recursive Loop That Made Us Human

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Psychology

Steven Pinker Knows When No One Knows that Everyone Knows

fromNature

1 week ago

Psychology

How do you know what I know you know? Steven Pinker on common knowledge

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Psychology

Steven Pinker on The Recursive Loop That Made Us Human

2 months ago

Psychology

Steven Pinker Knows When No One Knows that Everyone Knows

more#social-coordination

fromThe New Yorker

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Do You Know What I Know?

Walking through the Long Island Railroad concourse, my son was perplexed by the close proximity of three chicken-themed restaurants-Chick-fil-A, Raising Cane's, and Pollo Campero-and by the fact that a shop called Gotham News mainly seemed to sell candy and bottled water. He also wanted to know why some people, as they strolled or waited, drank out of cans in brown paper bags. "Why do they use those bags?" he asked.

Psychology

Philosophy

fromThe Conversation

3 weeks ago

How does 'common knowledge' shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

Common knowledge—when everyone knows that everyone knows—shapes rituals, enforced silences, and social harmony, and making it explicit can disrupt social order.

fromwww.theguardian.com

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker review communication breakdown

Human communication is shaped by recursive assumptions and unacknowledged baggage, complicating exchanges and requiring reason to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Books

fromHarvard Gazette

Why is your head not exploding? Steven Pinker can explain. - Harvard Gazette

Common knowledge is the mutual, iterated awareness that enables coordination, social bonds, humor, language, and collective behavior.

The Social Functions Of Common Knowledge

Common knowledge and visible emotional expressions coordinate social behavior, stabilize groups, drive change, and are amplified and complicated by social media.

fromHarvard Business Review

Steven Pinker on Speculation Bubbles, Super Bowl Ads, and What Leaders Need to Know About Group Psychology

Common knowledge—the awareness of what others know and that they know it—drives coordination, power dynamics, signaling, and social norms across business and society.

fromBig Think