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Nick Chater

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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

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Chater read Psychology at Cambridge University. He first worked at Warwick University in 1996.

Career

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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.[citation needed]

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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nick Chater – Professor of Behavioural Science | Staff Directory | WBS". wbs.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b Hodges, Lucy (5 December 2013). "MBA programmes: A more thoughtful approach". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  3. ^ "The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology". futurelearn.com. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  4. ^ "The Human Zoo". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  5. ^ "I'm in danger of becoming a flat-mind bore". 31 March 2018.