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

So, completely irrational, you would think.

Also, thou shalt not disregard the irrational.

These two scenarios of the origins of economic nationalism, one irrational and the other not, are not real alternatives, but describe responses that intertwine the more rational the fear, the more that fear can be used as an instrument of politics.

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.

Mostly, they are afraid that being tough on bank governance will somehow disrupt the flow of credit. It is a silly and baseless fear, but that is how modern regulators think and act in a state of constant, irrational anxiety.

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.

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?

But panic panic leaders fear that they will be unable to stop their people from panicking is both common and harmful. In the grip of panic panic, officials issue over reassuring statements, suppress or delay alarming news, and speak contemptuously about how the public is irrational, hysterical, or panicking.

But panic panic leaders fear that they will be unable to stop their people from panicking is both common and harmful. In the grip of panic panic, officials issue over reassuring statements, suppress or delay alarming news, and speak contemptuously about how the public is irrational, hysterical, or panicking.

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.

Of course, their fear is not irrational, as Pasok, a long established left wing party in Greece, found out when the far left, anti austerity Syriza Party surged to victory in January. But that does not change the fact that parties need to address their electoral fears is causing serious damage to national policymaking.

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.

NEW YORK The nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the five permanent UN Security Council members (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia) plus Germany is an important achievement in global diplomacy. The deal announced earlier this month represents the triumph of rational hope over irrational fear, and it deserves to be implemented.

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.

The fear is no longer fear.

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.

So fear doesn't work, right? Fear doesn't work.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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.

So fear is your friend. Fear is an indicator.

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.