2026 Nick Chater: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	91	918	803	110	100	428	34972

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
1996 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Nick Chater is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within decision sciences and cognitive psychology, with a particular emphasis on behavioral economics and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Their recent papers include:

The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray, 2022, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on the Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
The Bayesian sampler: Generic Bayesian inference causes incoherence in human probability judgments, 2020, Psychological Review
Facing up to the uncertainties of COVID-19, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
Changing behaviour for net zero 2050, 2021, BMJ

Nick Chater has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Adam N. Sanborn (20 coauthored works)
Jian-Qiao Zhu (16 coauthored works)
George Loewenstein (12 coauthored works)
Jake Spicer (11 coauthored works)
Joakim Sundh (8 coauthored works)

The scientist has published often in the following venues:

Trends in Cognitive Sciences (9 publications)
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (8 publications)
SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications)
Psychological Review (5 publications)
Cognition (5 publications)

Their research covers several subfields including:

General Decision Sciences
Cognitive Neuroscience
Sociology and Political Science
Artificial Intelligence
Safety Research

Main topics addressed in Nick Chater's work include:

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Child and Animal Learning Development
Language and cultural evolution
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Nick Chater was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society in 1996.

Best Publications

Language as shaped by the brain

Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

1319
Citations
A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection.

Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

1301
Citations
Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

1297
Citations
A Temporal Ratio Model of Memory

Gordon D. A. Brown;Ian Neath;Nick Chater

1026
Citations
Decision by sampling

Neil Stewart;Nick Chater;Gordon D A Brown

978
Citations
Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases

Thomas L. Griffiths;Nick Chater;Charles Kemp;Amy Perfors

896
Citations
Probabilistic models of cognition: Conceptual foundations

Nick Chater;Joshua B. Tenenbaum;Alan Yuille

795
Citations
The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.

Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

774
Citations
Proceedings of the fourteenth annual conference of the cognitive science society

Richard Shillcock;G Lindsey;J Levy;N Chater

767
Citations
Distributional Information: A Powerful Cue for Acquiring Syntactic Categories

Martin Redington;Nick Chater;Steven Finch

747
Citations
Herding in humans.

Ramsey M. Raafat;Nick Chater;Chris Frith;Chris Frith

660
Citations
Simplicity: a unifying principle in cognitive science?

Nick Chater;Paul Vitányi

636
Citations
Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance

Morten H Christiansen;Nick Chater

624
Citations
Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition

Nick Chater;Christopher D. Manning

539
Citations
Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behavior

Stian Reimers;Elizabeth Ann Maylor;Neil Stewart;Nick Chater

488
Citations
Absolute Identification by Relative Judgment.

Neil Stewart;Gordon D. A. Brown;Nick Chater

478
Citations
Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition

Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

455
Citations
The Probability Heuristics Model of Syllogistic Reasoning.

Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

441
Citations
Rational Models of Cognition

Fernand Gobet;M. Oaksford;N. Chater

441
Citations
Bayesian Brains without Probabilities

Adam N. Sanborn;Nick Chater

387
Citations
Précis of Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

386
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London

Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University

Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London

Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick

Emmanuel M. Pothos City, University of London

Marius Usher Tel Aviv University

Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh

Chris D. Frith University College London

Derrick G. Watson University of Warwick

George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

Personal website of Nick Chater

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