WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT EVERYONE KNOWS by Steven Pinker (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT EVERYONE KNOWS by Steven Pinker (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

Title: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage.
Author: Steven Pinker.
Narrator: Fred Sanders.
Release Date: September 23, 2025.
Length: 9 hours and 1 minute.
Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Science, Philosophy, Economics.

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... explores the concept of common knowledge—where everyone knows something, knows that others know it, and so on infinitely—as a fundamental driver of human social dynamics, explaining paradoxes in behavior from awkward first dates and social media shaming to financial bubbles, revolutions, and diplomatic pretenses. Drawing on research from psychology, economics, game theory, and linguistics, Steven Pinker argues that public events generate this layered awareness, enabling coordination but also motivating avoidance through euphemisms, hypocrisy, and innuendo to preserve relationships or power structures. The book reveals how common knowledge underpins harmony in cooperation, hypocrisy in veiled communication, and outrage in collective actions, offering insights into why people pretend not to see the elephant in the room and how this shapes politics, markets, and everyday interactions.