About rationality and irrationality of our decisions

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Autor(a) principal: Mora, Rodrigo
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4856
Resumo: As its title suggests, this book postulates that human behavior is fundamentally irrational, that is,  driven by emotional factors that are difficult to understand for logical mind. This irrationality is, nonetheless, neither random or subjective, but to some extent predictable and rather universal. Furthermore, such irrational reasoning can be found at  different levels , from the way in which people acquire small or large-scale goods (a TV set or a house respectively), to the way  in which individuals make ethical decisions.
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spelling About rationality and irrationality of our decisionsAcerca de la racionalidad y la irracionalidad de nuestras decisioneshuman behaviorirrationalitypredictabilityconducta humanairracionalidadprevisibilidadAs its title suggests, this book postulates that human behavior is fundamentally irrational, that is,  driven by emotional factors that are difficult to understand for logical mind. This irrationality is, nonetheless, neither random or subjective, but to some extent predictable and rather universal. Furthermore, such irrational reasoning can be found at  different levels , from the way in which people acquire small or large-scale goods (a TV set or a house respectively), to the way  in which individuals make ethical decisions. Tal como sugiere su nombre, este texto postula que el comportamiento humano es fundamentalmente irracional, esto es, está gobernado por aspectos emocionales difíciles de explicar de acuerdo a explicaciones lógicas. Esta “irracionalidad” esta, no obstante lejos de ser aleatoria y estrictamente personal, sino que corresponde a un patrón regular  con ciertas leyes y principios. Más aún, tal irracionalidad comprende distintos ámbitos del comportamiento, desde los procesos detrás de la compra de bienes muebles o inmuebles a  los  que definen las acciones éticas de las personas.ABEC2011-08-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArtigo não Avaliado por Paresapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4856Fractal: Journal of Psychology; Vol. 23 No. 2 (2011); 425-428Fractal: Revista de Psicologia; v. 23 n. 2 (2011); 425-4281984-0292reponame:Fractal : Revista de Psicologiainstname:Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)instacron:UFFporhttps://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4856/4697Copyright (c) 2018 Fractalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMora, Rodrigo2018-06-05T12:01:05Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/4856Revistahttps://periodicos.uff.br/fractalPUBhttps://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/oai||anaclmonteiro@yahoo.com.br|| mlivianascimento@gmail.com1984-02921984-0292opendoar:2018-06-05T12:01:05Fractal : Revista de Psicologia - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
Acerca de la racionalidad y la irracionalidad de nuestras decisiones
title About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
spellingShingle About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
Mora, Rodrigo
human behavior
irrationality
predictability
conducta humana
irracionalidad
previsibilidad
title_short About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
title_full About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
title_fullStr About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
title_full_unstemmed About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
title_sort About rationality and irrationality of our decisions
author Mora, Rodrigo
author_facet Mora, Rodrigo
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Mora, Rodrigo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv human behavior
irrationality
predictability
conducta humana
irracionalidad
previsibilidad
topic human behavior
irrationality
predictability
conducta humana
irracionalidad
previsibilidad
description As its title suggests, this book postulates that human behavior is fundamentally irrational, that is,  driven by emotional factors that are difficult to understand for logical mind. This irrationality is, nonetheless, neither random or subjective, but to some extent predictable and rather universal. Furthermore, such irrational reasoning can be found at  different levels , from the way in which people acquire small or large-scale goods (a TV set or a house respectively), to the way  in which individuals make ethical decisions.
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