Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at

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, 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

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

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. 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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