Sentences with word «irrational»

This can often occur as a result of irrational fears apparent in one partner linked to jealousy in the past.

This is the same kind of irrational fear that causes parents to avoid vaccinations, opening them up to diseases that were all but wiped out hundreds of years ago.

I'd say a lack of skepticism at this level is actually a sign of irrational belief in the ability to predict what can't be predicted.

I think killing for sport is just as irrational as killing for religious reasons.

Along the way, it becomes clear that a strange force was changing people in the past, making them behave in irrational ways.

That being said, it's not irrational for one to disagree.

This could be a cause of irrational thinking by people living and working there, or even teaching at the university.

I'm not usually one to underestimate the American car buyer's capacity for irrational decision making.

Each can be debilitating with irrational fears and worries.

This ensures you can provide the financial stability you intended while protecting recipients from court involvement and from making irrational decisions with the money.

The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.

It is widely documented that consumers — all of us — oftentimes make irrational decisions about price and value.

If these topics are also based on irrational beliefs in mythical beings, yes.

I would speak with people on a daily basis who made decisions that seemed completely irrational from an investing standpoint, yet they continued to make them day in and day out.

This module focuses on how a teacher and her students resolve a misconception about irrational numbers as possible lengths of line segments.

For example, there are more irrational numbers than rational numbers.

The real threat to the public comes from irrational fears of nuclear power.

Add how irrational people can be about taxes and tax deductions, and it's a bit of a sacred cow.

People who already care about what they eat — and probably don't need this advice anyway — come up with more irrational reasons to avoid certain foods.

Why is this, and why are women telling their stories of irrational behaviour in order to keep these not - so - nice men?

They are irrational because most small spiders and most small spaces do not kill you.

We are driven by emotions that cause us to sometimes do irrational things.

Love can bring out powerful forces in us such as intense hatred, extreme jealousy, and gut wrenching fears of abandonment that can make us act in seemingly irrational ways.

The lesson is that investors should assess the real performance of the companies they invest in, and not get carried away by the often irrational prices that occur in the stock market.

Do you see your child's or your own behavior becoming irrational, but feel helpless to stop it?

He acknowledges emotion in the process of storytelling, and exposes ways in which irrational feelings or inaccurate memories might even affect larger political and social interactions.

Some of the choices just seem so irrational to me.

My husband feels like I am totally irrational on this point.

I was trying to explain some of the rationale behind their seemingly irrational behavior.

If you allow irrational ideas to become an acceptable part of modern society, then you should not surprised if that leads to problems.

Such irrational risk assessment has practical implications, the scientists note.

Well during this time people might feel the need to panic and begin to do irrational things with their money.

Is the market very irrational at this early stage still?

Or will he use them to commit some other irrational act?

Everyone has a completely irrational love for something that seems weird to other people but what can I say?

A few bad performances really can create irrational responses.

This form of couples counseling is most useful when irrational patterns of reacting exist.

Yup, turns otherwise intelligent people into irrational sheep believing that some invisible sky being is actually listening... Nothing fails like prayer.

We have shown that this same mechanism allows the slime mould to balance its nutrient intake, make rational and sometimes irrational choices and trade - off between speed and accuracy requirements.

And this puts us in a really strange and irrational position, because we're having to deny facts that are well - established through mountains of research.

If a tech stock shows a strong upward trajectory, an investor is not irrational if she values it at more than its current market price.

The first step to overcoming something irrational is, as always, to acknowledge that you have an issue.