Sentences with phrase «decisions than rational»

into problem - solving, plays a crucial role in learning and memory, and it's even better at making tough decisions than rational analysis is (New Scientist, 1 December 2007, p 42).

Yet more evidence that religions (not faith mind you) is populated by ignorant people who would rather use their fears and insecurities to rule their decisions than rational thought.

Not exact matches

When consumers are feeling uncertain, they tend towards rational rather than emotional decision - making.

«You make emotional decisions rather than rational ones.»

For BtoB startups — cost reduction or increasing the sales are the only two most important reasons why customers buy product as their decision are more rational than individuals who may buy the product for variety of other reasons.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.

«Rather than rational self interest being the basis upon which your micro-economical decisions were made, start to say, «What if the golden rule was the basis for our microeconomic decisions?

The reason atheists know more about the bible than christians is that they have taken the time to learn about it and make a rational decision to not believe it.

Rather than accept the burden of complicated moral decisions, to which they must apply critical thinking and rational inquiry, they turn off their mental faculty and accept as true and infallible a set of principles that we developed in the very infancy of our civilization.

The only thing less rational than believing in God is «believing» your decision to not believe is the definitive word on the subject.

You provide the big picture, better than anyone, that helps us parents make rational decisions.

But if you let her anxiety rattle you so that you swoop in to grab her down, she not only learns that she's incompetent, but that anxiety can't be tolerated, so she has to rush in and take action, rather than regulating herself to make rational decisions.

If we view women as rational voters who likely weigh any number of different issues that they find important before making a decision on a slate of candidates, than this example is anything but puzzling.

For the first time, researchers find that decisions based on unconscious learning, or knowledge we don't know we know, may rely on entirely different brain pathways than the parts of the brain we use when we make conscious, rational choices.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

They'll say you're making less rational decisions than Shia LaBeouf.

It retains conservative styling to appeal to business fleet customers whose purchase choices are based more on rational than emotional decisions.

The decision to buy a Range Rover Evoque is certainly emotional rather than rational.

In short, Toyota wants the Camry to be something other than a rational decision.

The problem is that many people make decisions that are more emotional than rational.

As a result, you may end up making emotional rather than rational decisions, something you don't want to do when signing a legally binding, life - changing contract.

Is it rational investment decision making to sell short more than a quarter of the outstanding shares of RIM?

But if a rational person looks to a home as a necessary shelter (with perks) they're more likely to make a smarter decision, related to their personal finances, than others.

Improbable though it may seem, research by University of Chicago psychologists has shown that people are less prone to biases like excessive aversion to losses and more apt to make systematic and rational decisions when a choice is presented to them in a foreign language rather than their native tongue.

Individuals, confronted with many different choices, simply copy other individuals rather than make «optimal» or «rational» decisions.

They say people make decisions on how they feel rather than rational thought.

You are also correct when you say obtaining a dog should be a rational decision, but I would say that many more people impulse buy a purebred dog in a pet store than those that go to a shelter or through a rescue to adopt a dog in need.

He now feels that he has begun to exhaust the interesting variations possible with the Xs and + s. Although he preplans each work, he says his decisions are based more on hunches than on rational systems.

I am not sure that the rational decision based on science is related to the best hindsight decision (at lest at the level of the nation state), it seems rational to think that logic would favour the best choice but it may be no better than guessing.

On a first look, it seems alot more rational than some other recent infrastructure decisions in Australia.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

Our goal is to make the litigation process as easy on our clients as possible so that they can make a rational decision about whether to settle their case or try it, rather than one made solely out of fear.

According to Justice Snider's decision, the Canadian courts consider that there is a significantly different rational for an accounting of profits than for damages leading to a different analysis.

In more than 30 years as an attorney, I have helped people from varying backgrounds make rational, informed and advantageous decisions in a wide range of legal practice areas.

Yet, they quote American judge and legal theorist Richard Posner: «Rational people base their decisions on their expectations of the future rather than on their regrets about the past.»

Second, unlike us humans, computers are not bigoted by emotions or personal opinions; hence their decisions are bound to be much more rational than ours.

You have gathered all the information you need to make a rational decision rather than an emotional one, but it may not be easy!