Nick Chater

Nick Chater is a professor of behavioural sciences at the Warwick Business School and head of WBS's Behavioural Science group—the largest of its kind in Europe.[1] He works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches.[2]

Work

Chater presents the massive open online course The Mind Is Flat,[3] based on his 2018 book of the same name, in which he describes the human mind as a "story-generating machine".[4] He was scientist-in-residence on eight seasons of the Radio 4 series The Human Zoo.[5] He was an advisor to the UK government's Behavioural Insights Team,[1] and he is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the British Academy.[2]

Books

  • The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain; ISBN 978-0300238723 (2018)
  • The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World with Morten H. Christiansen; ISBN 978-1541674981 (2022)

References

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