Over the last five years, behavioral research is unearthing some fascinating links between emotion and rationality.
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But behavioral economists have shown that people predictably behave in ways that objectively defy rationality.
So is there really any hope for reforms, rationality, courage and capitalism in a welfare society?
However, a second branch of financial economics is far more sceptical about markets' inherent rationality.
These technologies have also powered an expansion of rationality and objectivity in human affairs.
When it comes to any cancer, fear takes over, and rationality flies out the window.
For bears, that probably indicates how far the market still has to fall to reach rationality.
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Instead, insights from brain studies may enable orthodox economists to develop a richer definition of rationality.
It has to come down for there to be some rationality back in the housing market again.
Environmental risks are not the only sort that that cause rationality to be put to one side.
Mr. Johnson's optimism springs from his faith in the decency, rationality and creativity of humans, all humans.
It is going to take many such cycles before the exuberant will finally paradigm shift into rationality.
Zaniness is an important part of science fiction, as well as operating within a certain framework of rationality.
It seems that a public opinion regarding this issue should consider the rationality of the following 3 arguments.
You just have to assume modest rationality in keeping the world's existing fleet of 437 nuclear reactors operating.
Greed and avarice blind the masses to the overvaluation until rationality unpredictably takes hold and the bubble collapses.
Unfortunately a mass of polling data and academic research does not support this vision of rationality and probity.
Frankfurt's internet exchange is a model of cool rationality, whereas London's is grotty and coming apart at the seams.
The success of neuroeconomics need not mean that behavioural economics will inevitably triumph over an economics based on rationality.
Continuing to throw rationality against the winds of passion is itself rather irrational.
This new rationality and slower pace seem to be what most Germans want.
He welcomes the current slowdown as it brings rationality in the ever-cyclical marketplace.
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The admirers held that his androgynous complexity allowed him to tap into a masculine rationality and simultaneously a feminine creativity.
In short, political justification must not begin with deriving the rationality of rule-following from a teleological conception of practical reason.
Alternatively, you can throw all rationality to the wind and listen to the financial hucksters advertising on TV and radio.
He would force the US and Europe to discuss issues that are grounded in strategic rationality rather than leftist-Islamist ideology.
Aaronson said he got the idea for the program several months ago in a discussion about the limits of human rationality.
So long as the media continue to portray their ideological fantasies as journalism, no politician will dare to embrace strategic rationality.
That leaves a middle ground of rationality, accounting for perhaps half of all investors, and it is these whom we are writing for.
It is widely assumed that emotion and rationality are somehow opposed to each other, and that rational decisions are better than emotional ones.
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