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During the recruitment process, Pinker says, Summers invited him to a dinner at his house with a number of Harvard professors from different departments who shared Pinker’s interest in human evolution, including Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser and Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham...
...fact that [Summers] was interested in so many areas, and had a great enthusiasm for cognitive psychology and evolutionary psychology and interdisciplinary work and biological sciences in general made me think that it would be a tremendously exciting atmosphere,” Pinker says...
Scarry says the dinner was planned with the approval of the English Department, which initially hoped to recruit Pinker for itself...
...reflected a hybrid of their intellectual interests, the professors say. The fact that two Harvard scholars from a field so different from his own would take an interest in recruiting him “made me think Harvard must be a very stimulating and interactive place,” Pinker says...
...Pinker says he and Scarry discussed the use of imagery in fiction and the way the mind processes imagery. And Gates, Pinker says, was enthusiastic about Pinker’s then-forthcoming book, “The Blank Slate,” which emphasizes the role of genetics in human behavior...