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[]
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 On-Line Course (MOOC) The Mind is Flat (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat).
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. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036tbly)
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'.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b www.wbs.ac.uk, Warwick Business School. "Nick Chater - Professor of Behavioural Science | Staff Directory | WBS". www.wbs.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hodges, Lucy (5 December 2013). "MBA programmes: A more thoughtful approach". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "I'm in danger of becoming a flat-mind bore". 2018-03-31.
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