Journal Article

Chater, Nick (2023) How could we make a social robot? A virtual bargaining approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . ISSN 1364-503X. (In Press)

Zhu, Jianqiao, Sundh, Joakim, Spicer, Jake, Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2023) The autocorrelated Bayesian sampler : a rational process for probability judgments, estimates, confidence intervals, choices, confidence judgments, and response times. Psychological Review . ISSN 0033-295X. (In Press)

Sundh, J., Zhu, J -Q., Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2023) A unified explanation of variability and bias in human probability judgments : how computational noise explains the mean-variance signature. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General . ISSN 0096-3445. (In Press)

Chater, Nick (2022) Consensus, cognitive frailty and the limits of the state : a contractarian approach. Journal of European Public Policy, 29 (12). pp. 1947-1958. doi:10.1080/13501763.2022.2135756 ISSN 1350-1763.

Spicer, Jake, Zhu, Jian-Qiao, Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2022) Perceptual and cognitive judgments show both anchoring and repulsion. Psychological Science, 33 (9). pp. 1395-1407. doi:10.1177/09567976221089599 ISSN 1467-9280.

Zhu , Jian-Qiao , León-Villagrá, Pablo, Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2022) Understanding the structure of cognitive noise. PLoS Computational Biology, 18 (8). e1010312. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010312 ISSN 1553-7358.

Misyak, Jennifer B. and Chater, Nick (2022) Instantaneous systems of communicative conventions through virtual bargaining. Cognition, 225 . 105097. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105097 ISSN 0010-0277.

Zhu , Jian-Qiao , Newall, Philip W. S., Sundh, Joakim, Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2022) Clarifying the relationship between coherence and accuracy in probability judgments. Cognition, 223 . 105022. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105022 ISSN 0010-0277.

Melkonyan, Tigran A., Zeitoun, Hossam and Chater, Nick (2022) The cognitive foundations of tacit commitments : a virtual bargaining model of dynamic interactions. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 108 . 102640. doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2021.102640 ISSN 0022-2496.

Erev, Ido, Yakobi, Ofir, Ashby, Nathaniel J. S. and Chater, Nick (2022) The impact of experience on decisions based on pre-choice samples and the face-or-cue hypothesis. Theory and Decision, 92 . pp. 583-598. doi:10.1007/s11238-021-09856-7 ISSN 0040-5833.

Chater, Nick, Zeitoun, Hossam and Melkonyan, Tigran A. (2022) The paradox of social interaction : shared intentionality, we-reasoning and virtual bargaining. Psychological Review, 129 (3). pp. 415-437. doi:10.1037/rev0000343 ISSN 0033-295X.

Zeitoun, Hossam, Melkonyan, Tigran A. and Chater, Nick (2022) The social contract in miniature : how virtual bargaining supports team production. Academy of Management Review . doi:10.5465/amr.2020.0229 ISSN 0363-7425. (In Press)

Chater, Nick (2022) What is the point of behavioural public policy? A contractarian approach. Behavioural Public Policy . doi:10.1017/bpp.2022.2 ISSN 2398-063X. (In Press)

Chater, Nick (2022) The computational society. Trends in Cognitive Sciences . 2315. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.07.004 ISSN 1364-6613. (In Press)

Chater, Nick and Loewenstein, George (2022) The i-frame and the s-frame : how focusing on the individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray. Behavioral and Brain Sciences . doi:10.1017/S0140525X22002023 ISSN 0140-525X. (In Press)

Chater, Nick and Loewenstein, G. (2022) The rhetoric of reaction, extended. Behavioural Public Policy . ISSN 2398-063X. (In Press)

Chater, Nick and Vlaev, Ivo (2021) The fragmentation of vision. Leonardo, 54 (6). 678. doi:10.1162/leon_a_02001 ISSN 1530-9282.

Sanborn, Adam N., Heller, Katherine, Austerweil, Joseph L. and Chater, Nick (2021) REFRESH : a new approach to modeling dimensional biases in perceptual similarity and categorization. Psychological Review, 128 (6). pp. 1145-1186. doi:10.1037/rev0000310 ISSN 0033-295X.

Castillo, Lucas, Leon-Villagra, Pablo, Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2021) Local sampling with momentum accounts for human random sequence generation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43 . ISSN 1069-7977.

Heyes, C., Chater, Nick and Dwyer, D. (2020) Sinking in : the peripheral Baldwinisation of human cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24 (11). pp. 884-899. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.006 ISSN 1364-6613.

Chater, Nick, Zhu, Jian-Qiao, Spicer, Jake, Sundh, Joakim, León-Villagrá, Pablo and Sanborn, Adam N. (2020) Probabilistic biases meet the Bayesian brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29 (5). pp. 506-512. doi:10.1177/0963721420954801 ISSN 0963-7214.

Zhu, Jianqiao, Sanborn, Adam N. and Chater, Nick (2020) The Bayesian sampler : generic Bayesian inference causes incoherence in human probability. Psychological Review, 127 (5). pp. 719-748. doi:10.1037/rev0000190 ISSN 0033-295X.

Kossuth, Lajos, Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Harris, Donna and Chater, Nick (2020) Does it pay to bet on your favourite to win? Evidence on experienced utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 171 . pp. 35-58. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2020.01.006 ISSN 0167-2681.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, Nick (2020) New paradigms in the psychology of reasoning. Annual Review of Psychology, 71 (1). pp. 305-330. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-051132 ISSN 0066-4308.

Ritchie, Owain T., Watson, Derrick G. , Griffiths, Nathan, Misyak, Jennifer B., Chater, Nick, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2019) How should autonomous vehicles overtake other drivers? Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 66 . pp. 406-418. doi:10.1016/j.trf.2019.09.016 ISSN 1369-8478.

Chater, Nick, Zeitoun, Hossam and Melkonyan, Tigran A. (2019) The social character of moral reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42 . e149. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18002583 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer, Ritchie, Owain, Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alex (2019) Sensorimotor communication beyond the body: The case of driving. Comment on “The body talks: sensorimotor communication and its brain and kinematic signatures” by G. Pezzulo et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 28 . pp. 31-33. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2019.01.013 ISSN 15710645.

Zhu , Jian-Qiao , Sanborn, Adam N. and Chater , Nick (2018) Mental sampling in multimodal representations. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016) . 5753-5764 . ISSN 1049-5258.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, Mike (2018) The enigma is not entirely dispelled: A review of Mercier and Sperber's The Enigma of Reason. Mind & Language, 33 (5). pp. 525-532. doi:10.1111/mila.12181 ISSN 0268-1064.

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H (2018) Language acquisition as skill learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 21 . pp. 205-208. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.04.001 ISSN 23521546.

Chater, Nick (2018) Is the Type 1/Type 2 Distinction Important for Behavioral Policy? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22 (5). pp. 369-371. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.02.007 ISSN 1364-6613.

Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer B., Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2018) Negotiating the traffic : can cognitive science help make autonomous vehicles a reality? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22 (2). pp. 93-95. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.11.008 ISSN 1364-6613.

Reali, Florencia, Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2018) Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary : how population size affects language. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285 (1871). 20172586. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.2586 ISSN 0962-8452.

Melkonyan, Tigran A., Zeitoun, Hossam and Chater, Nick (2018) Collusion in Bertrand versus Cournot competition : a virtual bargaining approach. Management Science, 64 (12). pp. 5599-5609. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2017.2878 ISSN 0025-1909.

Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G., Tsetsos, Konstantinos and Chater, Nick (2017) The influence of attention on value integration. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79 (6). pp. 1615-1627. doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1340-7 ISSN 1943-3921.

Sanborn, Adam N. and Chater, Nick (2017) The sampling brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21 (7). pp. 492-493. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.009 ISSN 1364-6613.

Liu, Chengwei, Vlaev, Ivo, Fang, Christina, Denrell, Jerker and Chater, Nick (2017) Strategizing with biases : engineering choice contexts for better decisions using the Mindspace approach. California Management Review, 59 (3). pp. 135-161. doi:10.1177/0008125617707973 ISSN 0008-1256.

Vitanyi, Paul M. B. and Chater, Nick (2017) Identification of probabilities. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 76 (Part A). pp. 13-24. doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2016.11.004 ISSN 0022-2496.

Olivola, Christopher Y. and Chater, Nick (2017) Numerical magnitude evaluation as a foundation for decision making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 . doi:10.1017/S0140525X16002211 ISSN 0140-525X.

Misyak, Jennifer B., Noguchi, Takao and Chater, Nick (2016) Instantaneous conventions : the emergence of flexible communicative signals. Psychological Science, 27 (12). pp. 1550-1561. doi:10.1177/0956797616661199 ISSN 1467-9280.

Sanborn, Adam N. and Chater, Nick (2016) Bayesian brains without probabilities. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20 (12). pp. 883-893. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.10.003 ISSN 1364-6613.

Chater, Nick and Schwarzlose, Rebecca F. (2016) Thinking about Thinking : 28 years on. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20 (11). p. 787. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.09.001 ISSN 1364-6613.

Moat, Helen Susannah, Olivola, Christopher Y., Chater, Nick and Preis, Tobias (2016) Searching choices : quantifying decision-making processes using search engine data. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8 . pp. 685-696. doi:10.1111/tops.12207 ISSN 1756-8757.

Chater, Nick and Loewenstein, George (2016) The under-appreciated drive for sense-making. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 126 (Part B). pp. 137-154. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.10.016 ISSN 0167-2681.

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2015) The language faculty that wasn't : a usage-based account of natural language recursion. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 . 1182. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01182 ISSN 1664-1078.

Liu, Chengwei, Eubanks, Dawn L. and Chater, Nick (2015) The weakness of strong ties : sampling bias, social ties, and nepotism in family business succession. The Leadership Quarterly, 26 (3). pp. 419-435. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.02.007 ISSN 1048-9843.

Winston, Joel S., Vlaev, Ivo, Seymour, Ben, Chater, Nick and Dolan, R. J. (2014) Relative valuation of pain in human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 34 (Number 44). pp. 14526-14535. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1706-14.2014 ISSN 0270-6474.

Misyak, Jennifer B., Melkonyan, Tigran A., Zeitoun, Hossam and Chater, Nick (2014) Unwritten rules : virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 18 (Number 10). pp. 512-519. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.010 ISSN 1364-6613.

Misyak, Jennifer B. and Chater, Nick (2014) Virtual bargaining : a theory of social decision-making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B. Biological Sciences, Volume 369 (Number 1655). 20130487. doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0487 ISSN 0962-8436.

Johansson, Petter, Hall, Lars, Tärning, Betty, Sikström, Sverker and Chater, Nick (2014) Choice blindness and preference change : you will like this paper better if you (believe you) chose to read it! Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Volume 27 (Number 3). pp. 281-289. doi:10.1002/bdm.1807 ISSN 0894-3257.

Chater, Nick (2014) Cognitive science as an interface between rational and mechanistic explanation. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6 (2). pp. 331-337. doi:10.1111/tops.12087 ISSN 1756-8757.

Moat, Helen Susannah, Preis, Tobias, Olivola, Christopher Y., Liu, Chengwei and Chater, Nick (2014) Using big data to predict collective behavior in the real world. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 37 (Number 01). pp. 92-93. doi:10.1017/S0140525X13001817 ISSN 0140-525X.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2014) Probabilistic single function dual process theory and logic programming as approaches to non-monotonicity in human vs. artificial reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning, Volume 20 (Number 2). pp. 269-295. doi:10.1080/13546783.2013.877401 ISSN 1354-6783.

Vlaev, Ivo, Seymour, Ben, Chater, Nick, Winston, Joel S. , Yoshida, Wako, Wright, Nicholas, Symmonds, Mkael and Dolan, Raymond (2014) Prices need no preferences : social trends determine decisions in experimental markets for pain relief. Health Psychology , 33 (1). pp. 66-76. doi:10.1037/a0030372 ISSN 0278-6133.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2013) Programs as causal models : speculations on mental programs and mental representation. Cognitive Science, Volume 37 (Number 6). pp. 1171-1191. doi:10.1111/cogs.12062 ISSN 0364-0213.

Gardiner, Ed and Chater, Nick (2013) Guarding against collective failures. Nursing Management, 20 (2). p. 11. doi:10.7748/nm2013.05.20.2.11.s20 ISSN 1354-5760.

Crupi, V., Chater, Nick and Tentori, K. (2013) New axioms for probability and likelihood ratio measures. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 64 (Number 1). pp. 189-204. doi:10.1093/bjps/axs018 ISSN 0007-0882.

Baronchelli, Andrea, Chater, Nick, Christiansen, Morten H. and Pastor-Satorras, R. (2013) Evolution in a changing environment. PLoS ONE, Vol.8 (No.1). e52742. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052742 ISSN 1932-6203.

Hsu, Anne S., Chater, Nick and Vitányi , Paul M. B. (2013) Language learning from positive evidence, reconsidered : a simplicity-based approach. Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 5 (Number 1). pp. 35-55. doi:10.1111/tops.12005 ISSN 1756-8757.

Fulop, Sean and Chater, Nick (2013) Why formal learning theory matters for cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 5 (Number 1). pp. 3-12. doi:10.1111/tops.12004 ISSN 1756-8757.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2013) Dynamic inference and everyday conditional reasoning in the new paradigm. Thinking & Reasoning, Volume 19 (Number 3-4). pp. 346-379. doi:10.1080/13546783.2013.808163 ISSN 1354-6783.

Baronchelli, Andrea, Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon, Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo, Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2013) Networks in cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 17 (Number 7). pp. 348-360. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.04.010 ISSN 1364-6613.

Kusev, Petko, Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira, Schaik, Paul and Chater, Nick (2012) Modeling judgment of sequentially presented categories using weighting and sampling without replacement. Behavior Research Methods, Volume 44 (Number 4). pp. 1129-1134. doi:10.3758/s13428-012-0218-9 ISSN 1554-351X.

Baronchelli, Andrea, Chater, Nick, Pastor-Satorras, R. and Christiansen, Morten H. (2012) The biological origin of linguistic diversity. PLoS One, Vol.7 (No.10). e48029. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048029 ISSN 1932-6203.

Tsetsos, Konstantinos, Chater, Nick and Usher, Marius (2012) Salience driven value integration explains decision biases and preference reversal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 109 (Number 24). pp. 9659-64. doi:10.1073/pnas.1119569109 ISSN 0027-8424.

Rezlescu, Constantin, Duchaine, Brad, Olivola, Christopher Yves and Chater, Nick (2012) Unfakeable facial configurations affect strategic choices in trust games with or without information about past behavior. PLoS ONE, Vol.7 (No.3). e34293. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034293 ISSN 1932-6203.

Chater, Nick and Vlaev, Ivo (2012) Social projection without evidential reasoning. Psychological Inquiry, Vol.23 (No.1). pp. 35-38. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2012.658342 ISSN 1047-840X.

Kusev, P., Ayton, Peter, Van Schaik, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2011) Judgments relative to patterns : how temporal sequence patterns affect judgments and memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance and Perception, Vol.37 (No.6). pp. 1874-1886. doi:10.1037/a0025589 ISSN 0096-1523.

Vlaev, Ivo, Chater, Nick, Stewart, Neil and Brown, G. D. A. (2011) Does the brain calculate value? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.15 (No.11). pp. 546-554. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2011.09.008 ISSN 13646613.

Hsu, Anne S., Chater, Nick and Vitányi, P. M. B. (2011) The probabilistic analysis of language acquisition : theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis. Cognition, Vol.120 (No.3). pp. 380-390. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.013 ISSN 0010-0277.

Chater, Nick, Goodman, Noah, Griffiths, Thomas L., Kemp, Charles, Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Tenenbaum, Joshua B. (2011) The imaginary fundamentalists : the unshocking truth about Bayesian cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.34 (No.4). pp. 194-196. doi:10.1017/S0140525X11000239 ISSN 0140-525X.

Otto, Philipp E., Chater, Nick and Stott, Henry (2011) The psychological representation of corporate ‘personality’. Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol.25 (No.4). pp. 605-614. doi:10.1002/acp.1729 ISSN 0888-4080.

Christiansen, Morten H., Reali, Florencia and Chater, Nick (2011) Biological adaptations for functional features of language in the face of cultural evolution. Human Biology, Volume 83 (Number 2). pp. 247-259. doi:10.3378/027.083.0206 ISSN 0018-7143.

Janssen, Christian P., Brumby, Duncan P., Dowell, John, Chater, Nick and Howes, Andrew (2011) Identifying optimum performance trade-offs using a cognitively bounded rational analysis model of discretionary task interleaving. Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol.3 (No.1). pp. 123-139. doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01125.x ISSN 1756-8757.

Ali, Nilufa, Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2011) The mental representation of causal conditional reasoning : mental models or causal models. Cognition, Volume 119 (Number 3). pp. 403-418. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.005 ISSN 0010-0277.

Vlaev, Ivo, Kusev, Petko, Stewart, Neil, Aldrovandi, Silvio and Chater, Nick (2010) Domain effects and financial risk attitudes. Risk Analysis, Vol.30 (No.9). pp. 1374-1386. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01433.x ISSN 0272-4332.

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2010) Language acquisition meets language evolution. Cognitive Science, Vol.34 (No.7). pp. 1131-1157. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01049.x ISSN 0364-0213.

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2010) Language evolution as cultural evolution : how language is shaped by the brain. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol.1 (No.5). pp. 623-628. doi:10.1002/wcs.85 ISSN 1939-5078.

Griffiths, Thomas L., Chater, Nick, Kemp, Charles, Perfors, Amy and Tenenbaum, Joshua B. (2010) Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.14 (No.8). pp. 357-364. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.05.004 ISSN 1364-6613.

Hsu, Anne S. and Chater, Nick (2010) The logical problem of language acquisition : a probabilistic perspective. Cognitive Science, Vol.34 (No.6). pp. 972-1016. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01117.x ISSN 0364-0213.

Kurniawan, I. T., Seymour, B., Talmi, D., Yoshida, W., Chater, Nick and Dolan, R. J. (2010) Choosing to make an effort : the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action. Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol.104 (No.1). pp. 313-321. doi:10.1152/jn.00027.2010 ISSN 0022-3077.

Bechtel, William, Behrmann, Marlene, Chater, Nick, Glushko, Robert J., Goldstone, Robert L. and Smolensky, Paul (2010) The Rumelhart Prize at 10. Cognitive Science, Vol.34 (No.5). pp. 713-715. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01116.x ISSN 0364-0213.

Kurniawan, I. T., Seymour, Ben, Vlaev, Ivo, Trommershauser, J., Dolan, R. J. and Chater, Nick (2010) Pain relativity in motor control. Psychological Science, Vol.21 (No.6). pp. 840-847. doi:10.1177/0956797610370160 ISSN 0956-7976.

Chater, Nick, Oaksford, M. (Mike), Hahn, Ulrike and Heit, Evan (2010) Bayesian models of cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol.1 (No.6). pp. 811-823. doi:10.1002/wcs.79 ISSN 1939-5078.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2010) Causation and conditionals in the cognitive science of human reasoning. The Open Psychology Journal, Vol.3 . pp. 105-118. doi:10.2174/1874350101003010105 ISSN 1874-3501.

Vousden, Janet I., Ellefson, Michelle R., Solity, Jonathan and Chater, Nick (2010) Simplifying reading : applying the simplicity principle to reading. Cognitive Science, Vol.35 (No.1). pp. 34-78. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01134.x ISSN 0364-0213.

Reimers, Stian, Maylor, Elizabeth A., Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2009) Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, Vol.47 (No.8). pp. 973-978. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.026 ISSN 0191-8869.

Chater, Nick (2009) Rational and mechanistic perspectives on reinforcement learning. Cognition, Vol.113 (No.3). pp. 350-364. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.014 ISSN 0010-0277.

Vlaev, Ivo, Chater, Nick, Lewis, Rich and Davies, Greg (2009) Reason-based judgments : using reasons to decouple perceived price-quality correlation. Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol.30 (No.5). pp. 721-731. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2009.06.003 ISSN 0167-4870.

Hodgetts, Carl J., Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, Nick (2009) Transformation and alignment in similarity. Cognition, Vol.113 (No.1). pp. 62-79. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.07.010 ISSN 0010-0277.

Raafat, Ramsey M., Chater, Nick and Frith, Chris (2009) Herding in humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.13 (No.10). pp. 420-428. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2009.08.002 ISSN 1364-6613.

Vlaev, Ivo, Chater, Nick and Stewart, Neil (2009) Dimensionality of risk perception : factors affecting consumer understanding and evaluation of financial risk. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 10 (3). pp. 158-181. doi:10.1080/15427560903167720 ISSN 1542-7560.

Ungemach, Christoph, Chater, Nick and Stewart, Neil (2009) Are probabilities overweighted or underweighted when rare outcomes are experienced (rarely)? Psychological Science, Vol.20 (No.4). pp. 473-479. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02319.x ISSN 0956-7976.

Vlaev, Ivo, Seymour, Ben, Dolan, Raymond and Chater, Nick (2009) The price of pain and the value of suffering. Psychological Science, Vol.20 (No.3). pp. 309-317. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02304.x ISSN 0956-7976.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2009) Précis of Bayesian rationality : the probabilistic approach to human reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.32 (No.1). pp. 69-84. doi:10.1017/S0140525X09000284 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick, Reali, Florencia and Christiansen, Morten H. (2009) Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.106 (No.4). pp. 1015-1020. doi:10.1073/pnas.0807191106 ISSN 1091-6490.

Otto, Philipp E., Davies, Greg B., Chater, Nick and Stott, Henry (2009) From spending to understanding : analyzing customers by their spending behavior. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Vol.16 (No.1). pp. 10-18. doi:10.1016/j.jretconser.2008.04.001 ISSN 0969-6989.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2009) Local and global inferential relations : response to Over (2009). Thinking & Reasoning, Vol.15 (No.4). pp. 439-446. doi:10.1080/13546780903361765 ISSN 1354-6783.

Vlaev, Ivo, Chater, Nick and Stewart, Neil (2008) Seeing is not enough : manipulating choice options causes focusing and preference change in multiattribute risky decision-making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol.21 (No.5). pp. 556-574. doi:10.1002/bdm.601 ISSN 0894-3257.

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2008) Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.31 (No.5). pp. 489-509. doi:10.1017/S0140525X08004998 ISSN 0140-525X.

Vlaev, Ivo and Chater, Nick (2008) Debiasing context effects in strategic decisions : playing against a consistent opponent can correct perceptual but not reinforcement biases. Judgment and Decision Making, 3 (6). pp. 463-474. ISSN 1930-2975.

Chater, Nick, Vlaev, Ivo and Grinberg, Maurice (2008) A new consequence of Simpson's paradox : stable cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma from populations of individualistic learners. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137 (3). pp. 403-421. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.137.3.403 ISSN 0096-3445.

Vlaev, Ivo, Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2008) Risk preference discrepancy : a prospect relativity account of the discrepancy between risk preferences in laboratory gambles and real world investments. Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol.9 (No.3). pp. 132-148. doi:10.1080/15427560802336673 ISSN 1542-7560.

Roberts, Matthew A. J. and Chater, Nick (2008) Using statistical smoothing to estimate the psycholinguistic acceptability of novel phrases. Behavior Research Methods, Vol.40 (No.1). pp. 84-93. doi:10.3758/BRM.40.1.84 ISSN 1554-351X.

Chater, Nick and Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) (2008) From universal laws of cognition to specific cognitive models. Cognitive Science, Vol.32 (No.1). pp. 36-67. doi:10.1080/03640210701801941 ISSN 0364-0213.

Vlaev, Ivo and Chater, Nick (2007) Context effects in games : local versus global sequential effects on choice in the prisoner's dilemma game. Judgment and Decision Making, 2 (6). pp. 380-389. ISSN 1930-2975.

Vlaev, Ivo, Chater, Nick and Stewart, Neil (2007) Relativistic financial decisions : context effects on retirement saving and investment risk preferences. Judgment and Decision Making, Vol.2 (No.5). pp. 292-311. ISSN 1930-2975.

Vlaev, Ivo, Chater, Nick and Stewart, Neil (2007) Financial prospect relativity : context effects in financial decision-making under risk. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol.20 (No.3). pp. 273-304. doi:10.1002/bdm.555 ISSN 0894-3257.

Stewart, Neil, Chater, Nick and Brown, G. D. A. (2006) Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology, Vol.53 (No.1). pp. 1-26. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2005.10.003 ISSN 0010-0285.

Neath, Ian, Brown, G. D. A., McCormack, Teresa, Chater, Nick and Freeman, Roderick (2006) Distinctiveness models of memory and absolute identification : evidence for local, not global, effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol.59 (No.1). pp. 121-135. doi:10.1080/17470210500162086 ISSN 1747-0218.

Stewart, Neil, Brown, G. D. A. and Chater, Nick (2005) Absolute identification by relative judgment. Psychological Review, Vol.112 (No.4). pp. 881-911. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.112.4.881 ISSN 0033-295X.

Stewart, Neil, Chater, Nick, Stott , Henry P. and Reimers, Stian (2003) Prospect relativity: how choice options influence decision under risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol.132 (No.1). pp. 23-46. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.132.1.23 ISSN 0096-3445.

Chater, Nick and Vitányi, Paul (2003) Simplicity : a unifying principle in cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (1). pp. 19-22. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(02)00005-0 ISSN 1364-6613.

Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2002) The effect of category variability in perceptual categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol.28 (No.5). pp. 893-907. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.28.5.893 ISSN 0278-7393.

Stewart, Neil, Brown, G. D. A. and Chater, Nick (2002) Sequence effects in categorization of simple perceptual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28 (1). pp. 3-11. doi:10.1037//0278-7393.28.1.3 ISSN 0278-7393.

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Chater, Nick and Jones, G. V. (Gregory V.) (2001) Searching for two things at once: evidence of exclusivity in semantic and autobiographical memory retrieval. Memory & Cognition, Vol.29 (No.8). pp. 1185-1195. ISSN 0090-502X.

Chater, Nick, Vitányi , Paul M. B. and Stewart, Neil (2001) Universal generalization and universal inter-item confusability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.24 (No.4). pp. 659-660. doi:10.1017/S0140525X01270083 ISSN 0140-525X.

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Chater, Nick and Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) (2001) Scale invariance in the retrieval of retrospective and prospective memories. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Vol.8 (No.1). pp. 162-167. ISSN 1069-9384.

Oaksford, M. (Mike), Chater, Nick and Larkin, Joanne (2000) Probabilities and polarity biases in conditional inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26 (4). pp. 883-899. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.26.4.883 ISSN 0278-7393.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2000) The Rational Analysis Of Mind And Behavior. Synthese, 122 (1/2). pp. 93-131. doi:10.1023/A:1005272027245 ISSN 0039-7857.

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (1999) Connectionist natural language processing : The state of the art. Cognitive Science, 23 (4). pp. 417-437. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2304_2 ISSN 0364-0213.

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (1999) Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance. Cognitive Science, 23 (2). pp. 157-205. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2302_2 ISSN 0364-0213.

Chater, Nick and Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) (1999) Scale-invariance as a unifying psychological principle. Cognition, Vol.69 (No.3). B17-B24. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00066-3 ISSN 0010-0277.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (1999) Information gain and decision-theoretic approaches to data selection : Response to Klauer (1999). Psychological Review, 106 (1). pp. 223-227. ISSN 0033-295X.

Oaksford, M. (Mike), Chater, Nick and Grainger, Becki (1999) Probabilistic Effects in Data Selection. Thinking & Reasoning, 5 (3). pp. 193-243. doi:10.1080/135467899393986 ISSN 1354-6783.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (1999) Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3 (2). pp. 57-65. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01273-X ISSN 1364-6613.

Chater, Nick (1999) Why biological neuroscience cannot replace psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (5). p. 834. doi:10.1017/S0140525X9926219X ISSN 0140-525X.

Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, Nick (1998) Understanding similarity : A joint project for psychology, case-based reasoning, and law. Artificial Intelligence Review, 12 (5). pp. 393-427. doi:10.1023/A:1006512431942 ISSN 0269-2821.

Redington, Martin and Chater, Nick (1998) Connectionist and Statistical Approaches to Language Acquisition : A Distributional Perspective. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13 (2-3). pp. 129-191. doi:10.1080/016909698386500 ISSN 0169-0965.

Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, Nick (1998) Real-world categories don't allow uniform feature spaces – not just across categories but within categories also. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (1). p. 28. doi:10.1017/S0140525X98370107 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick (1997) Bootstrapping word boundaries : A bottom-up corpus-based approach to speech segmentation. Cognitive Psychology, 33 (2). pp. 111-153. ISSN 0010-0285.

Oaksford, M. (Mike), Chater, Nick, Grainger, Becki and Larkin, Joanne (1997) Optimal data selection in the reduced array selection task (RAST). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23 (2). pp. 441-458. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.23.2.441 ISSN 0278-7393.

Chater, Nick (1997) Simplicity and the mind. The Psychologist (Bulletin), 10 (11). pp. 495-498. ISSN 0952-8229.

Chater, Nick (1997) What is the type-1/type-2 distinction? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20 (1). pp. 68-69. doi:10.1017/S0140525X97240021 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (1996) Deontic reasoning, modules and innateness : a second look. Mind & Language, 11 (2). pp. 191-202. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1996.tb00040.x ISSN 0268-1064.

Bullinaria, John A. and Chater, Nick (1996) Double dissociation, modularity, and distributed organization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19 (4). p. 632. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00043314 ISSN 0140-525X.

Bullinaria, John A. and Chater, Nick (1996) Double dissociation, modularity, and distributed organization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19 (04). p. 632. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00043314 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick (1996) Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organization. Psychological Research, 103 (3). pp. 566-581. ISSN 0340-0727.

Redington, Martin and Chater, Nick (1996) Transfer in artificial grammar learning : a reevaluation. Journal of experimental psychology : general, 125 (2). pp. 123-138. ISSN 0096-3445.

Bullinaria, John A. and Chater, Nick (1995) Connectionist modelling : Implications for cognitive neuropsychology. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10 (3-4). pp. 227-264. doi:10.1080/01690969508407095 ISSN 0169-0965.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1995) Theories of reasoning and the computational explanation of everyday inference. Thinking & Reasoning, 1 (2). pp. 121-152. doi:10.1080/13546789508251501 ISSN 1354-6783.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1995) Two and three stage models of deontic reasoning. Thinking And Reasoning, 1 (4). pp. 350-357. doi:10.1080/13546789508251509 ISSN 1354-6783 .

Pickering, Martin and Chater, Nick (1995) Why cognitive science is not formalized folk psychology. Minds and Machines, 5 (3). pp. 309-337. doi:10.1007/BF00974748 ISSN 0924-6495.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1994) A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection. Psychological Review, 101 (4). pp. 608-631. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.101.4.608 ISSN 0033-295X.

Chater, Nick and Heyes, Cecelia M. (1994) Animal concepts : content and discontent. Mind & Language, 9 (3). pp. 209-246. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1994.tb00224.x ISSN 0268-1064.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1994) Another look at eliminative and enumerative behaviour in a conceptual task. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 6 (2). pp. 149-169. doi:10.1080/09541449408520141 ISSN 0954-1446.

Chater, Nick (1994) Modularity, interaction and connectionist neuropsychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17 (1). pp. 66-67. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00033379 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick (1993) Categorization, theories and folk psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16 (1). p. 37. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00028739 ISSN 0140-525X.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1993) Holism and eclecticism in the theory of concepts. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 5 (2). pp. 173-182. doi:10.1080/09541449308520114 ISSN 0954-1446.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (1993) Logicism, Mental Models and Everyday Reasoning : Reply to Garnham. Mind & Language, 8 (1). pp. 72-89. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1993.tb00271.x ISSN 0268-1064.

Chater, Nick (1993) Mental models and non-monotonic reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16 . pp. 340-341. ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick and Abubakar, M. (1993) Studying the effects of speaking rate and syllable structure on phonetic perception using recurrent neural networks. Irish Journal of Psychology, 14 (3). pp. 410-425. doi:10.1080/03033910.1993.10557947 ISSN 0303-3910.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1992) Bounded rationality in taking risks and drawing inferences. Theory & Psychology, 2 (2). pp. 225-230. doi:10.1177/0959354392022009 ISSN 0959-3543.

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (1992) Connectionism, learning and meaning. Connection Science, 4 (3-4). pp. 227-252. doi:10.1080/09540099208946617 ISSN 0954-0091.

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1991) Against logicist cognitive science. Mind & Language, 6 (1). pp. 1-38. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1991.tb00173.x ISSN 0268-1064.

Chater, Nick (1991) Network and direct methods of maximising harmony. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14 (04). pp. 740-742. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00072265 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (1990) Autonomy, implementation and cognitive architecture : a reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn. Cognition, Vol.34 (No.1). pp. 93-107. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(90)90033-G ISSN 0010-0277.

Chater, Nick (1990) Connectionism and classical computation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13 (3). pp. 493-494. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00079802 ISSN 0140-525X.

Chater, Nick, Lyon, Karen and Myers, Terry (1990) Why are conjunctive categories overextended? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16 (3). pp. 497-508. ISSN 0278-7393.

Book Item

Zhu, Jian-Qiao, Chater, Nick, León-Villagrá, Pablo, Spicer, Jake, Sundh, Joakim and Sanborn, Adam N. (2024) An introduction to psychologically plausible sampling schemes for approximating Bayesian inference. In: Fiedler, Klaus and Juslin, Peter and Denrell, Jerker, (eds.) Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009002042 (In Press)

Sundh, Joakim, Sanborn, Adam N., Zhu, Jian-Qiao, Spicer, Jake, León-Villagrá, Pablo and Chater, Nick (2023) Approximating Bayesian inference through internal sampling. In: Fiedler, Klaus and Juslin, Peter and Denrell, Jerker, (eds.) Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009002042 (In Press)

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, M. H. (2022) Grammar through spontaneous order. In: Lappin, S. and Bernardy , J -P., (eds.) Algebraic Structures in Natural Language. Abingdon, UK: CRC Press, pp. 65-79. ISBN 9781003205388 (In Press)

Sanborn, Adam N., Zhu, J -Q., Spicer, Jake, Sundh, Joakim, León-Villagrá, Pablo and Chater, Nick (2021) Sampling as the human approximation to probabilistic inference. In: Muggleton, Stephen and Chater, Nicholas, (eds.) Human-Like Machine Intelligence. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198862536

Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer B., Melkonyan, Tigran A. and Zeitoun, Hossam (2016) Virtual bargaining : building the foundations for a theory of social interaction. In: Kiverstein, J., (ed.) Routledge handbook of the philosophy of the social mind. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138827691 (In Press)

Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), Wood, Alex M. and Chater, Nick (2012) Sources of variation within the individual. In: Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 227-241. ISBN 9780262018081

Oaksford, M. (Mike), Chater, Nick and Stewart, Neil (2012) Reasoning and decision making. In: Frankish, Keith and Ramsey, William M., 1960-, (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of cognitive science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521871419

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2012) A solution to the logical problem of language evolution: language as an adaptation to the human brain. In: The Oxford handbook of language evolution. Oxford Handbooks Series (Chapter 65). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 626-639. ISBN 978-0-1995-4111-9

Chater, Nick and Vlaev, Ivo (2011) The instability of value. In: Delgado, M. and Phelps, E. A. and Robbins, T. W., (eds.) Decision making, affect, and learning : attention and performance XXIII. Attention and performance XXIII (Chapter 4). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199600434

Pothos, E.M., Chater, Nick and Hines, P. (2011) The simplicity model of unsupervised categorisation. In: Pothos, E.M. and Wills, A.J., (eds.) Formal Approaches in Categorization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 199-219. ISBN 978-0-5211-9048-0

Oaksford, M. (Mike), Chater, Nick, Schlottman, A. and Shaw, C. (2010) Causal discounting and conditional reasoning in children. In: Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick, (eds.) Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 117-134. ISBN 978-0-1992-3329-8

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2010) Cognition and conditionals: an introduction. In: Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick, (eds.) Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-36. ISBN 978-0-1992-3329-8

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2010) Conditional inference and constraint satisfaction: reconciling mental models and the probabilistic approach? In: Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick, (eds.) Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 309-333. ISBN 978-0-1992-3329-8

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2010) Dual systems and dual processes but a single function. In: Manktelow, Ken and Over, D. and Elqayam, S., (eds.) The Science of Reason: a festschrift for Jonathan St. B. T. Evans. The Science of Reason . Hove, Sussex: Psychology Press , pp. 339-352. ISBN 978-1-84872-015-2

Chater, Nick, Oaksford, M. (Mike), Hahn, U. and Heit, E. (2010) Inductive logic and empirical psychology. In: Gabbay, D. and Woods, J. and Hartmann, S., (eds.) Handbook of the history of logic: Inductive Logic. Handbook of the history of logic, Vol.10 (Chapter 15). Amsterdam ; New York: North-Holland: North Holland, pp. 549-620. ISBN 978-0-4445-2936-7

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2010) Open issues in cognitive science of conditionals. In: Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick, (eds.) Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 389-401. ISBN 978-0-1992-3329-8

Kirby, S., Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2009) Biological foundations and origin of syntax. In: Bickerton, Derek and Szathmáry, Eörs, (eds.) Biological foundations and origin of syntax. Cambridge: M I T Press, pp. 325-344. ISBN 978-0-2620-1356-7

Onnis, L., Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2009) Connectionist models of language processing. In: Squire, L.R., (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Neuroscience. Encyclopaedia of Neuroscience , Vol.3 . Amsterdam ; London: Academic Press, pp. 83-90. ISBN 978-0-0804-4796-4

Chater, Nick (2009) Half a century of judgement and decision making research. In: Chater, Nick, (ed.) Judgement and decision making. SAGE Library of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Vol.1 . London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd., xxi-xxxix. ISBN 978-1-8478-7267-8

Heller, Katherine, Sanborn, Adam N. and Chater, Nick (2009) Hierarchical learning of dimensional biases in human categorization. In: Lafferty , J. Clayton (James Clayton), 1928- and Williams , C., (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, December 7-10, 2009, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. La Jolla, C.A.: Neural Information Processing Systems. ISBN 9781615679119

Griffiths, Thomas L., Sanborn, Adam N., Canini, Kevin R. and Navarro, Daniel J. (2008) Categorization as nonparametric Bayesian density estimation. In: Chater, Nick and Oaksford, Mike, (eds.) The probabilistic mind : prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 303-328. ISBN 9780199216093

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2008) Computational models of psycholinguistics. In: Sun, R., (ed.) Cambridge handbook of computational psychology. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology (Chapter 17). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 477-504. ISBN 978-0-5218-5741-3

Oaksford, M. (Mike), Chater, Nick and Hahn, U. (2008) Human reasoning and argumentation: the probabilistic approach. In: Adler, J.E. and Rips, L.J., (eds.) Reasoning: studies of human inference and its foundations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 383-413. ISBN 978-0-5218-4815-2

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2008) Probability logic and the Modus Ponens : Modus Tollens asymmetry in conditional inference. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, Nick, (eds.) The probabilistic mind: prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 97-120. ISBN 978-0-1992-1609-3

Vlaev, Ivo and Chater, Nick (2008) Relativity of financial preferences : how choice options influence investment decision making. In: Hoffmann, K. P., (ed.) Psychology of decision making in economics, business and finance. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 7-36. ISBN 978-1-6002-1917-7

Simpson , Keith and Stewart, Neil (2008) A decision-by-sampling account of decision under risk. In: Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike), (eds.) The probabilistic mind : prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 261-276. ISBN 9780199216093

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2008) The probabilistic mind : prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science. In: Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike), (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind:Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-32. ISBN 9780199216093

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2008) The probabilistic mind : where next? In: Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike), (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind:Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 501-514. ISBN 978-0-1992-1609-3

Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Chater, Nick (2004) Connectionist models of children's reading. In: Nunes, Terezhinha and Bryant, Peter, 1937-, (eds.) Handbook of children's literacy. Dordrecht ; London: Kluwer Academic, pp. 67-89. ISBN 1402016204

Chater, Nick (2004) Rationality, rational analysis and human reasoning. In: Manktelow, Ken and Cheung Chung, Man, (eds.) Psychology of reasoning : theoretical and historical perspectives. Hove ; New York: Psychology Press. ISBN 1841693103

Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Chater, Nick (2001) The chronological organization of memory : common psychological foundations for remembering and timing. In: Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa , (eds.) Time and memory : issues in philosophy and psychology. Oxford : Clarendon Press, pp. 77-110. ISBN 0198250363

Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Vousden, Janet I. (1998) Adaptive analysis of sequential behaviour : oscillators as rational mechanisms. In: Oaksford , M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick, (eds.) Rational models of cognition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 165-193. ISBN 0198524153

Conference Item

Le Pargneux, Arthur, Chater, Nick and Zeitoun, Hossam (2022) Contractualist concerns shape moral decisions and moral judgments. In: CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada, 27-30 Jul 2022. Published in: CogSci Proceedings (In Press)

Leon-Villagra, Pablo, Castillo, Lucas, Chater, Nick and Sanborn, Adam N. (2022) Eliciting human beliefs using random generation. In: 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada, 27–30 Jul 2022. Published in: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022 pp. 2000-2006.

Kunar, Melina A., Yu, Miao, Tsetsos, Konstantinos, Chater, Nick and Watson, Derrick G. (2015) Attention! Now that I’ve got your attention let me sway your judgement : irrelevant, salient stimuli and extreme outliers affect decisions on value. In: European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, 23-27 Aug 2015

Quesada, J., Adelman, James S. and Chater, Nick (2006) Situational frequency judgments are influenced by contextual diversity. In: CogSci 2006: 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, 26-29 Jul 2006. Published in: Proceedings of the 2006 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society p. 2592.

Adelman, James S. , Quesada, José F and Chater, Nick (2005) Frequency judgments are diversity judgements. In: 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Memphis, USA, 2005

Reimers, S., Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2003) Choice set options affect the valuation of risky prospects. In: 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society, Boston, MA, JUL 31-AUG 02, 2003. Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2 pp. 988-993. ISBN 0-8058-4991-2.

Stewart, Neil and Chater, Nick (2003) No unified scales for perceptual magnitudes: Evidence from loudness. In: 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society, Boston, MA, JUL 31-AUG 02, 2003. Published in: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, Pts 1 and 2 pp. 1116-1121. ISBN 0-8058-4991-2.

Stewart, Neil, Chater, Nick and Stott, H. P. (2001) Effect of choice set on valuation of risky prospects. In: CogSci 2006: 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1-4 2001 pp. 982-987. ISBN 9780805841527.

Working or Discussion Paper

Zhu, Jianqiao, Sanborn, Adam N. and Chater, Nick (2017) Mental sampling in multimodal representations. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. (Unpublished)

Book

Chater, Nick (2018) The mind is flat : the remarkable shallowness of the improvising brain. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300238723 ; 9780241208779

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick, eds. (2010) Cognition and conditionals : probability and logic in human thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-36. ISBN 9780199233298

Chater, Nick, ed. (2009) Judgement and decision making. SAGE Library of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Vol.1-4 . London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.. ISBN 9781847872678

Journal Item

Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2023) From the pragmatics of charades to the creation of language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46 . e7. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000735

Chater, Nick (2022) Rationality as the end of thought. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45 . e223. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000899

Chater, Nick (2022) The ephemeral stories of our lives. Behavioral and Brain Sciences . (In Press)

Chater, Nick (2020) Facing up to the uncertainties of Covid-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 4 (5). 439. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0865-2

Sanborn, Adam N., Zhu, Jianqiao, Spicer, Jake and Chater, Nick (2020) Sampling as a resource-rational constraint. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43 . e22. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19001584

Isbilen, Erin S., Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2019) It's about time: Adding processing to neuroemergentism. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49 . pp. 224-227. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.04.005

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (2011) The “is-ought fallacy” fallacy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.34 (No.5). pp. 262-263. doi:10.1017/S0140525X11000665

Christiansen, Morten H., Chater, Nick and Reali, Florencia (2009) The biological and cultural foundations of language. Communicative & Integrative Biology , Vol.2 (No.3). pp. 221-222. doi:10.4161/cib.2.3.8034

Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), Neath, Ian and Chater, Nick (2008) Serial and free recall : common effects and common mechanisms? a reply to Murdock (2008). Psychological Review, Vol.115 (No.3). pp. 781-785. doi:10.1037/a0012563

Brown, G. D. A., Neath, Ian and Chater, Nick (2007) A temporal ratio model of memory. Psychological Review, Vol.114 (No.3). pp. 539-576. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.114.3.539

Olivers, Christian N. L., Chater, Nick and Watson, Derrick G. (2004) Holography does not account for goodness : a critique of van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996). Psychological Review, Vol.111 (No.1). pp. 242-260. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.111.1.242

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2001) The probabilistic approach to human reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5 (8). pp. 349-357. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01600-4

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (2001) Connectionist psycholinguistics : capturing the empirical data. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5 (2). pp. 82-88. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01600-4

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (2001) Human rationality and the psychology of reasoning : Where do we go from here? British Journal of Psychology, 92 (Part 1). pp. 193-216. doi:10.1348/000712601162031

Chater, Nick (2000) Cognitive science - The logic of human learning. Nature, 407 (6804). pp. 572-573. doi:10.1038/35036662

Chater, Nick (2000) How smart can simple heuristics be? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (5). pp. 745-746.

Christiansen, Morten H. and Chater, Nick (1999) Connectionist models of human language processing : Progress and prospects. Cognitive Science, 23 (4). pp. 415-437.

Chater, Nick (1999) The search for simplicity : A fundamental cognitive principle? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 52 (2). pp. 273-302. doi:10.1080/713755819

Chater, Nick and Oaksford, M. (Mike) (1999) The probability heuristics model of syllogistic reasoning. Cognitive Psychology, 38 (2). pp. 191-258. doi:10.1006/cogp.1998.0696

Chater, Nick and Redington, Martin (1999) Connectionism, theories of learning, and syntax acquisition : where do we stand? Journal of Child Language, 26 (1). pp. 226-232.

Redlington, Martin, Chater, Nick and Finch, Steven (1998) Distributional information : A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories. Cognitive Science, 22 (4). pp. 425-469. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2204_2

Chater, Nick and Hahn, Ulrike (1998) What is the dynamical hypothesis? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (5). pp. 633-634. doi:10.1017/S0140525X98271731

Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, Nick (1998) The notion of distal similarity is ill defined. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (4). pp. 474-475. doi:10.1017/S0140525X98311255

Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, Nick (1998) Similarity and rules: distinct? exhaustive? empirically distinguishable? Cognition, 65 (2-3). pp. 197-230. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00044-9

Chater, Nick and Pickering, Martin (1997) Two projects for understanding the mind : A response to Morris and Richardson. Minds and Machines, 7 (4). pp. 553-569. doi:10.1023/A:1008264330143

Redington, Martin and Chater, Nick (1997) Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1 (7). pp. 273-281. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01081-4

Oaksford, M. (Mike) and Chater, Nick (1995) Information gain explains relevance which explains the selection task. Cognition, 57 (1). pp. 97-108. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(95)00671-K

Dataset

Vousden, Janet I. and Chater, Nick (2009) Rational analysis of reading: Identifying optimal representations and the implications for reading instruction. [Dataset]