So, completely irrational, you would think.

Also, thou shalt not disregard the irrational.

You might say, eh, that's not really irrational.

I'll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior.

Laurie Santos A monkey economy as irrational as ours

I will tell you a little bit about irrational behavior.

However, they have reached irrational levels under the current administration.

But they also do some of the irrational things we do.

I'll give you a couple of more examples on irrational decision making.

And my interest in irrational behavior started many years ago in the hospital.

My fellow environmentalists, on this subject, have been irrational, anti scientific, and very harmful.

But it's this irrational view of things that drives us on to the next thing.

We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown, when it comes to fungi.

The reason this is irrational is that we've given people in both situations the same choice.

Then again, who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs?

No. Contrary to what's usually said, testability is common, in myths and all sorts of other irrational modes of thinking.

In my own life, I shall always be grateful for having found a form of play in my irrational love of baseball.

The remarkable thing to us is that, when you give monkeys this choice, they do the same irrational thing that people do.

Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

What makes the situation in Gaza even more infuriating is that the status quo is actually irrational. It is not in anyone s political interest.

But maybe they have another faculty, something else that would seem equally irrational to us, but they actually tap into some great possible value there.

Actually, HIV's about sex and drugs, and if there are two things that make human beings a little bit irrational, they are erections and addiction.

In China, the widespread euphoria about the economy is reason for concern. Some universal human weaknesses can result in irrational behavior during an economic boom.

Markets seem to be driven by stories, as I emphasize in my book Irrational Exuberance. There are stories of great new eras and of looming depressions.

Though when the Dodgers abandoned us to come to L.A., I lost faith in baseball until I moved to Boston and became an irrational Red Socks fan.

That requires listening as well as speaking. It means sticking to principles, but also attempting to understand the other side, however irrational or intransigent it may sometimes appear.

Now, the fundamental basis of neoclassical economics would tell you it's irrational to reject a dollar because someone you don't know in another room is going to get 99.

This one was very unexpected because, you know, I grew up with the scientific worldview, and I was shocked learning how much of my life is governed by irrational forces.

On the issue of refugees, Moualem said the conditions were fine for them to return, and he blamed some western countries for spreading irrational fears that prompted refugees to stay away.

These phenomena were connected. It was nationalism that legitimated mobility the two of them together that produced madness and the new mental disease that expressed itself in suicide and irrational violence.

This easy variability is the sign of a bad explanation, because, without a functional reason to prefer one of countless variants, advocating one of them, in preference to the others, is irrational.

The traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Though Bashir may be able to avoid arrest simply by limiting his international travel, the commotion provoked by the indictment is not irrational. The charges against him have a powerful stigmatizing effect.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

The problem is not that science and medicine wish to avoid finding cures it is that they are too strongly motivated by an irrational, unconscious need to cure death to be fully motivated by the lesser task of preventing and curing disease in order to delay their patients and their own inevitable ends. The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the denial of death.

Well, I'm not even going to address the clearly irrational positions of people like the Catholic Church, who think somehow that if you give out condoms, everyone's going to run out and have sex.

A revised and reinforced International Monetary Fund package is imperative if the necessary reforms are to be enacted. The country s irrational energy policy, based on immensely wasteful subsidies to consumers, must be fundamentally altered.

Back then, irrational news decisions, sycophancy, and propaganda were passed off as journalism. In those days, editors, reporters, and columnists played a cat and mouse game with the authorities, resorting to satire, humor, or metaphor.

If you'd asked people this 30 years ago, most people, including psychologists, would have said that this baby was irrational, illogical, egocentric that he couldn't take the perspective of another person or understand cause and effect.

The eurozone s inflation target is not a magic number, and it is irrational to let it determine the overall macroeconomic framework. If lower is always better, why not set the target at 1 , or even zero?

Then credit dries up and the economy collapses. This vicious downward spiral for business confidence typically features phishes for example, the victims of Bernard Madoff s Ponzi scheme discovered only after the period of irrational exuberance has ended.

But both the rational expectations and the behavioral models are fundamentally flawed for the purpose of assessing policy interventions. As different as they might appear, they attempt to generate exact predictions of human behavior, whether rational or irrational.

Better Governance African governments often boast when they simply stop the corrosive effects of corruption and irrational business regulation. But little attention is given to the high cost of telecommunications, unreliable electrical power systems, and the poor transport infrastructure.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal . Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.

Should such irrational exuberance force the government, willy nilly, to curtail public investment? Does this mean that government must decide which capital flows say into real estate investment, for example are bad, and so must be taxed or otherwise curbed?