Over the last five years, behavioral research is unearthing some fascinating links between emotion and rationality.
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When it comes to any cancer, fear takes over, and rationality flies out the window.
It is widely assumed that emotion and rationality are somehow opposed to each other, and that rational decisions are better than emotional ones.
Fromkin says there are eight "radical turns" that have brought us from the African forests of millions of years ago to where we are now, among them: becoming human, inventing civilization, developing a conscience and achieving rationality.
Unfortunately a mass of polling data and academic research does not support this vision of rationality and probity.
These technologies have also powered an expansion of rationality and objectivity in human affairs.
Mr. Johnson's optimism springs from his faith in the decency, rationality and creativity of humans, all humans.
This new rationality and slower pace seem to be what most Germans want.
The admirers held that his androgynous complexity allowed him to tap into a masculine rationality and simultaneously a feminine creativity.
They dreamt of a Utopia built on pleasure-seeking, rationality and empathy.
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The rooting is not based on rationality and due-diligence investigations.
Greed and avarice blind the masses to the overvaluation until rationality unpredictably takes hold and the bubble collapses.
So is there really any hope for reforms, rationality, courage and capitalism in a welfare society?
Alternatively, you can throw all rationality to the wind and listen to the financial hucksters advertising on TV and radio.
Perhaps after all the smoke has settled from the perceived rampant irrationality of today, rationality, clear market dynamics, and financial prowess in the global markets will manifest themselves.
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They were far too sophisticated for that. (Indeed, in some of his more recent work, Sargent has tried to incorporate more realistic definitions of human rationality.) But both Sargent and Sims are definitely on the side that says beauty - logical consistency - needs to come first.
Frankfurt's internet exchange is a model of cool rationality, whereas London's is grotty and coming apart at the seams.
That leaves a middle ground of rationality, accounting for perhaps half of all investors, and it is these whom we are writing for.
As interpreted by the important Chicago school of economics, faith in human rationality is closely linked to an ideology in which it is unnecessary and even immoral to protect people against their choices.
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