Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, who works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches.[1]
Education
Chater read Psychology at Cambridge University. He first worked at Warwick University in 1996.
Career
Chater is head of WBS's Behavioural Science group, which is the largest of its kind in Europe.[2]
Chater presents the massive open online course The Mind Is Flat.[3]
Chater is a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change.
He was an advisor to the UK government's Behavioural Insights Team.[2]
He is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the British Academy.[1]
Chater was scientist-in-residence on eight seasons of the Radio 4 series The Human Zoo.[4]
Partial bibliography
Chater has coauthored numerous books on rationality and the human mind.
He published The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain (ISBN 978-0300238723) in 2018, in which he describes the human mind as a 'story-generating machine'.[5]
- Christiansen, Morten H. (2022). The Language Game : How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World. Nick Chater. New York. ISBN 978-1-5416-7498-1. OCLC 1250200719.
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References
- 1 2 "Nick Chater – Professor of Behavioural Science | Staff Directory | WBS". wbs.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- 1 2 Hodges, Lucy (5 December 2013). "MBA programmes: A more thoughtful approach". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ↑ "The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology". futurelearn.com. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ↑ "The Human Zoo". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ↑ "I'm in danger of becoming a flat-mind bore". 31 March 2018.