What Could Be More Interesting Than How The Mind Works - Harvard Gazette

Pinker is a psychologist who studies language behavior and human development in children.  He was interviewed by Harvard. In this interview the questions were focused on the early life of Steven Pinker. Each question was based off the previous answer so if he mentioned how his parents supported him based off his strengths the nest question would be “what were those strengths?” (Harvard). The interviewer was able to uncover small details of his life such as how his parents did support him but weren’t sure that his career choice was the right one. After the interviewer asked about Pinker’s childhood he focused more on how he got to this point in his career. The interviewer tried to uncover facts about Pinker knowing he knew what he was doing. Being a physiologist Pinker can manipulate his answers based off the questions asked. This makes the interviewer’s job of uncovering information harder because if there is something Pinker does not want revealed then Pinker can use his knowledge and avoid these questions. Once the interview was done asking about Pinker’s past, he started to focus on more personal questions of his present life. He focused on technology and what Pinker thought of it. Also to make the interview more involved he mentions his crazy hair and asked about the style choice. The interview does a good job uncovering information for this interview.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/05/what-could-be-more-interesting-than-how-the-mind-works/