Sentences with phrase «irrational behavior of»

«Owners of stocks, however, too often let the capricious and often irrational behavior of their fellow owners cause them to behave irrationally as well.»

Mr. Deysher would prefer to give his investors the opportunity to earn prudent returns, sleep well at night and, eventually, profit richly from the irrational behavior of the mass of investors.

It's ingenious exploitation that plays on primal fears and subconscious anxieties and actually makes irrational behavior of almost every movie teenager hunted by homicidal maniacs a defining and expressive part of the experience: they become primal elements of their nightmares.

«Free will» is just a nonsensical cop - out people use to justify the irrational behavior of their god towards his or her creations.

But that still does not justify the irrational behavior of killing even 1 animal for religious reasons.

Other proponents of smart beta cite the irrational behavior of investors as the main support for factor - based investing.

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My ridiculous behavior was a timely reminder of how anger can turn otherwise sensible people into raving, irrational lunatics.

Another behavior is anchoring, where investors are slow to react to fundamental changes in economic, corporate or market developments because of an irrational attachment to a perceived value, even in the face of changing information.

Not that I believe in good or bad luck of the stock market as it is purely driven by participant state of mind and mostly their irrational behavior.

Man is prone to irrational behavior, pride and a host of other sins which will lead to our ultimate destruction.

Making ignorant statements aggregating the irrational and radical behaviors of extremist groups to an entire religion is evidence for a lack of education and a lack of sensitivity to diversity.

However, the assumption of the psychotherapist is that irrational behavior can be brought under rational control by re-educating the person in healthy interpersonal relationships.

When I run into people who believe in creationism, it gives me a hint to expect irrational behavior in other areas of life.

But it also shows that just as we have other «non-rational» (not necessarily irrational) behaviors such as love, the desire to work cooperatively, art, and music, this is just another thing that people have as part of their personality.

But it also shows that just as we have other «non-rational» (not necessarily irrational) behaviors such as love, the desire to work cooperatively, art, and music, this is just another thing that a person can have as part of their personality.

What purpose of love or witness does preempting irrational behavior by the government serve?

Religion is also the biggest source for delusional thinking and delusional expressions of same, - otherwise I would not be here posting this — to you, a person doomed to irrational thinking and behavior thanks to your «religion».

It does this by creating a climate of acceptance — of feelings and impulses (around which irrational guilt often forms)-- and by confronting the young person with the need to change irresponsible, self - other hurting behavior (the source of appropriate guilt).

Having the burgeoning powers of manhood but little experience of what it means to be a man, his behavior ranges in crazy mixed - up ways from the most irrational stupidity to brilliant sublimity.

However, I tend to sympathize with the atheist view because of the historical irrational behavior demonstrated by groups of faith over the history of humanity.

Each was led to ruthless and irrational behavior because of the eschatological ideals.

His trying, irrational, egocentric behavior gives rise to a continuous round of quarrels, sprees, promises, ad infinitum.

Given the bad behavior of some men and women's fear — sometimes irrational — of sexual violence, this does not surprise me.

One of the most frequent reasons kids cry is because they're overtired — and it can lead to some irrational behavior.

Thinking errors, simply put, are patterns of thinking that are inaccurate or irrational; they influence our feelings and behavior, often in negative ways.

Older babies, ages 6 - 12 months, were able to overcome the irrational and agitated behavior associated with a certain form of the dopamime gene if they were nurtured and raised in a sensitive and caring environment.

By being members of the National Alliance for Youth Sports, parents make a statement that they want to bench irrational behavior in youth sports and they are committed to postive, safe and fun sports for all children.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

Look, Gabriele Scheler's behaviors were extremely irrational on site of her crimes; She had molested office properties; and she had seriously injured my body as evidenced in those 7 photos — http://tDOTcn/R7F1yQ0 --(replace DOT with.

But allies of the mayor argue that Mr. Cuomo's behavior went beyond the usual hardball tactics and entered the realm of the vindictive, even the irrational.

The study shows that the «wisdom of crowds» is susceptible to irrational «herd behavior» — and that the herd can be manipulated.

«The CIA personality profile of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was actually the Middle Eastern version of «showing off,» not irrational behavior as the Bush administration inaccurately thought,» according to Neuman.

Social psychology crystallized in the 19th century around a concern with crowd behavior: Why do otherwise reasonable individuals become irrational or even dangerous when placed in a mob of people?

This behavior is not irrational, Stott says, and «is consistent with how the social identity of the group is defined.»

The athlete shows central nervous system disturbances such as confusion, irritability or irrational behavior, which may culminate in a collapse or loss of consciousness.

Although seemingly irrational, she is on a path toward increasingly riskier drug seeking behaviors, as the reward pathways in her brain are strengthened in support of actions that increase her drug exposure.

Try as he might to dominate her, Marnie just won't crack, leaving Mark no alternative save to solve the mystery of her strange behavior, which includes hatred of men, nightmares, and an irrational fear of the color red.

A Dangerous Method (Sony) was overlooked at Oscar time but David Cronenberg's superb screen version of Christopher Hampton's play about the friendship and eventual split between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is a sharp, lucid, perceptive film about the rational and irrational sides of human behavior.

And on the fiction front, Cristi Puiu, in Aurora, fastidiously observed his main character's increasingly irrational behavior in a perhaps deliberately failed attempt to get inside the head of a seemingly normal individual who commits four acts of homicide.

The unpredictable and sometimes seemingly irrational behavior exhibited by young students is simply a product of their biology — the frontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls reasoning and helps us think before we act, develops much later in our development.

It opposes the classical way of thinking and views criminal behavior as irrational and may be due to a biological, environmental, physical, psychological problem or disorder.

Humans have this uncanny ability to self - justify all sorts of irrational and harmful ideas and behaviors.

Some believe the market crash was caused by an irrational behavior on the part of investors.

Such a high degree of volatility could be unsettling and drive irrational behavior, such as selling out of fear or buying and leveraging out of greed.

The paper is rich with examples of how mental accounting leads to irrational spending and investment behavior.

So I wouldn't blame him for such irrational behavior, only non-tech guys had a higher chance of immunity (even Mohnish Pabrai couldn't escape).

The debt snowball helps encourage irrational behavior instead of teaching people to act in a mathematically sound way.

We try to be skeptical of conventional wisdom and try to avoid the waves of irrational behavior and emotion that periodically engulf Wall Street.

I've comment on another one of your comments, but now that I've seen more of your comments, all which a based on your personal experience and bias it's quite comical to see you call someone else's comment emotional and irrational unless you are specifically commenting on party of the comment «uncastrated dogs father lots and lots of pups» because the rest of the comment is quite the opposite, they are way too many factors at play too suggest that neutering causes behavior problems

• Tend to occur in seizure - prone breeds (e.g. beagle, Bernese mountain dog, etc.) • Often develop around puberty (8 - 10 months old); usually before 2 years of age • Discernible pre-ictal mood change (e.g. depressed, irritable or flat mood) • Behavioral event is often sudden in onset and bout - like — though bouts may cluster into a lengthy sequence • Behavior is often extreme, irrational, apparently unprovoked • Behavioral event may be triggered by stress or an environmental event (noise, flashing light) • May be associated with autonomic signs (salivation, urination, anal gland discharge) • Post-ictal depression / unresponsive or even aggression