Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at

Warwick Business School Warwick Business School (WBS) is an academic department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Warwick University, that was established in 1967 as the School of Industrial and Business Studies. The Business School offers undergraduate, postgradu ...

, who works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches.

Education

Chater read Psychology at

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. He first worked at

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in 1996.

Career

Chater is head of WBS's Behavioural Science group, which is the largest of its kind in Europe. Chater presents the

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''The Mind Is Flat''. Chater is a member of the UK

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. He was an advisor to the UK government's

Behavioural Insights Team The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the "Nudge Unit", is a UK-based global social purpose organisation that generates and applies behavioural insights to inform policy and improve public services, following nudge th ...

. He is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

. Chater was scientist-in-residence on eight seasons of the Radio 4 series ''The Human Zoo''.

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'' () in 2018, in which he describes the human mind as a 'story-generating machine'. *

References

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