Nick Chater
{{Short description|British behavioural scientist and writer}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/|title=Nick Chater – Professor of Behavioural Science {{!}} Staff Directory {{!}} WBS|website=wbs.ac.uk|access-date=21 March 2017}}
Education
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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.{{cite news|last1=Hodges|first1=Lucy|title=MBA programmes: A more thoughtful approach|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/10496671/MBA-programmes-A-more-thoughtful-approach.html|accessdate=17 May 2017|work=Daily Telegraph|date=5 December 2013}}
Chater presents the massive open online course The Mind Is Flat.{{cite news|title=The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology |url=https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat |website=futurelearn.com |access-date=12 August 2023}}
Chater is a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
He was an advisor to the UK government's Behavioural Insights Team.
He is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the British Academy.
Chater was scientist-in-residence on eight seasons of the Radio 4 series The Human Zoo.{{cite news|title=The Human Zoo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036tbly |website=bbc.co.uk |access-date=12 August 2023}}
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'.{{Cite web | url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/im-in-danger-of-becoming-a-flat-mind-bore/ |title = I'm in danger of becoming a flat-mind bore|date = 31 March 2018}}
- {{Cite book |last=Christiansen |first=Morten H. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1250200719 |title=The Language Game : How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World |date=2022 |others=Nick Chater |isbn=978-1-5416-7498-1 |location=New York |oclc=1250200719 |author-link=Morten Christiansen (cognitive scientist)}}
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