Nick Chater is professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School. He works on the cognitive and social foundations of rationality and language. He was elected a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in 2010 and a fellow of the British Academy in 2012. Nick is co-founder of the research consultancy Decision Technology and is a member on the U.K.’s Committee on Climate Change. He is the author of The Mind is Flat.
An open letter signed by hundreds of behavioural scientists from across the U.K. calls into question the British government’s decision not to enact social distancing measures.