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Irrational behavior can be useful when used tactically in certain conflict, game and escape situations. The moves of an irrational opponent are not (or only very limitedly) predictable. An irrational negotiator cannot be put under rational pressure. [55] An indirect tactic is the rational use of the irrationalism of third parties.
The tendency for some people, especially those with depression, to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them. (compare optimism bias) Present bias: The tendency of people to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future moments. [111] Plant blindness
A cognitive distortion is a thought that causes a person to perceive reality inaccurately due to being exaggerated or irrational.Cognitive distortions are involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety.
Much subject matter in literature can be seen as an expression of human longing for the irrational. The Romantics valued irrationality over what they perceived as the sterile, calculating and emotionless philosophy which they thought to have been brought about by the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution . [ 4 ]
From the 1920s through the 1940s, Lewin developed an approach for studying human behavior which he called field theory. [8] Field theory proposes that a person's behavior is a function of the person and the environment. [9] Lewin considered a person's psychological environment, or "life space", to be subjective and thus distinct from physical ...
U.S. stocks opened higher this morning, with the and the narrower, price-weighted down % and %, respectively, at a.m. EDT. Irrational exuberance is back, and the process by which it returned is ...
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
It has been theorized that humans are susceptible to self-deception because most people have emotional attachments to beliefs, which in some cases may be irrational. Some evolutionary biologists, such as Robert Trivers , have suggested [ 8 ] [ page needed ] that deception plays a significant role in human behavior, and more generally speaking ...