László Mérő, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

László Mérő

Hungarian scientist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1949

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Profession: mathematician, psychiatrist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About László Mérő

  • László Méro (born Budapest, December 11, 1949) is a Hungarian research psychologist and popular science author.
  • He has Jewish ancestry.
  • He is a lecturer at the Experimental Psychology Department of Eötvös Loránd University and at the business school Kürt Academy.
  • He is also a founder and leader of a software company producing computer games.
  • One of his projects is a computer game he is developing with Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube.
  • He is also the leader of the Hungarian team at the World Puzzle Championship.
  • His son is Csaba Méro, 8 time Hungarian go champion. He represented Hungary in the Tenth International Mathematical Olympiad held in Moscow in 1968, and was awarded a Bronze Medal.[1] He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in Mathematics in 1974.
  • He spent the next ten years at the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, working on various pattern recognition and artificial intelligence projects.
  • Recognizing the limitations of artificial intelligence, he began investigating human cognition.
  • Since 1984 he has been at the Experimental Psychology Department of Eötvös Loránd University, studying cognitive psychology and psychophysics.
  • He has written two books, Ways of Thinking (newer translation: Habits of Mind) and Moral Calculations, that aroused the interest of the wider, non-professional public.
  • His books analyze the quasi-rational mechanisms of people and the nature of rationality in general, undermining some common beliefs about our minds' functioning. He has been publishing in Magyar Narancs a series titled Are you the dance instructor here? (The title refers to a joke: A client enters the dancing school and asks a well-dressed man: "Are you the dance instructor here?" "Fuck no, I'm the etiquette instructor!") Several of these essays were collected in a book in 2005 (see below). Picture

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