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Nick Chater
British behavioural scientist and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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]
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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
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