The central question in research on linguistic relativity, or the Whorfian hypothesis, is
whether people who speak different languages think differently. The recent resurgence of …

Frames of reference are coordinate systems used to compute and specify the location of
objects with respect to other objects. These have long been thought of as innate concepts …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can
be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from
the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and …

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the
thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

The human mind has a prodigious capacity for representation. We aren't limited to thinking
about the here and now, just as we aren't limited to thinking about the objects and properties …