A primary focus of this ongoing blog has been the importance of critical thinking in our daily lives and the positive effects it yields. However, just as important to consider as the positive effects ...

Ariely (Predictably Irrational) expands his research on behavioral economics to offer a more positive and personal take on human irrationality’s implications for life, business, and public policy.

Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion.

Every disaster brings out human irrationality. When there’s a plane crash, we fear flying; when a rare disease emerges, we fear we will be infected. And when there’s a mass shooting in a church, we ...

Intuitively, it’s obvious to most people - outside of US conservative economic think tanks at least - that human behaviour is more complicated than the cold eyed calculations of odds and potential ...

Intelligence 4 Reasons Why Irrationality Isn’t Seen as a Problem Critically thinking about "the problem with the problem of human irrationality." Posted June 7, 2019 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina A ...