Sentences with phrase «irrational decisions»

I don't think only a «handful» of religious people, for example, make irrational decisions based on faith.

The danger comes when you make irrational decisions in order to get that approval.

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

A major reason why teenagers often respond to those influences with irrational decisions is the presence of a brain chemical known as dopamine.

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

Fear is powerful, especially when it evokes irrational decisions.

If a client makes a really irrational decision under stress, they're not going to perceive it to be their fault.

Changing people's financial incentives obviously will not affect the behavior of a small minority who make wholly irrational decisions.

Sounds like a recipe for irrational decision - making to me.

During a divorce, people tend to make irrational decisions about their living situations.

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

This would be another time where the NCAA makes a completely irrational decision without proof of their own, and it makes you wonder if there needs to be a rules change to stop all of this nonsense.

In the grip of midlife crisis it is easy to make irrational decisions regretted later.

Understandably, it's not always easy to put your emotions aside when it comes to money, which is why it's important to create systems that prevent irrational decisions — adhering to a 24 - hour cooling - off period before making any big money move, say.

Geri Pell of Pell Wealth Partners discusses how rational investors can make irrational decisions due to emotion, experiences and upbringing.

The concept of behavioral finance helps us recognize our natural biases that lead us to making illogical and often irrational decisions when it comes to investments and finances.

On the other hand, if you spend most of your time focused on reacting to what the rest of the marketplace is doing, you'll probably make more irrational decisions based in emotion.

«Cognitive science tells us that humans often make subconscious, emotional, and sometimes irrational decisions in one place in the brain, and then justify those decisions rationally and logically in another place.»

It never ceases to amaze me how people who are otherwise smart and accomplished make irrational decisions regarding weight loss.

It's like one irrational decision after another.

The higher your leverage, the greater your risk on each trade, likely amplifying irrational decision - making.

That seemingly irrational decision was perfectly rational from the utility's viewpoint, because California does not recognize nuclear power as low - carbon energy nor discourage a utility for replacing it with fossil fuels.

Why do customers make such irrational decisions?

Many atheists fear religion, because it can be used for irrational decisions (war / bigotry) and many religious people fear atheism because the rational argument shakes the foundations many have built their lives upon.

The court confirmed that an appellate court should interfere only where a mistake is made as to an «extricable question of law» or where overall the trial judge reached a completely irrational decision.

It would be really easy for people to make irrational decisions based upon FOMO.

Loyalty programs are supposed to incentivise spend and make travelers make irrational decisions in favor of the corporations that run the programs — where's the incentive here?

«The table cap is the single most counterintuitive and irrational decision that was ever made,» Wynn told analysts on a conference call.

But, competition gets under our skin, and can cause us to make some irrational decisions.

In Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely explains how the mind works and why we are often prone to irrational decision - making.

The good news is that, unlike Isaac Newton, investors today have access to myriad resources that can help us curb these self - destructive inclinations — from 401 (k) plans and IRAs to boost savings to financial planners to talk us out of irrational decisions.

The irrational decision strikes most scientists as a feat of colossal stupidity, economic folly and ideological backwardness.

Another bias is mental accounting where an investor divides wealth into arbitrary categories and makes irrational decisions based on the category, such as a stock purchase or sale tied to an emotional attachment to the company.

The first is that it removes the possibility of you making emotional or irrational decisions.

Even among sophisticated investors, once emotion takes hold, anyone can make irrational decisions.

It causes people to make irrational decisions and hold illogical opions that deny facts then those same people try to use their silly beliefs to pass laws that they want the rest of us to abide by.

That leads to irrational decisions and behaviors.

but i guess this is all public — Confucius says: one who is hollow will make irrational decisions

Player meetings, irrational decisions being madeleft right and centre, this is all signs of poor management.

and makes irrational decision and challenges its like having a beefed up Flamini..

The tri-axis wants to make us believe that that was an irrational decision.

The result is errors and irrational decisions that can hold you back.

While confidence is great, try to be honest about how you may be influenced to make irrational decisions.

It's actually not an irrational decision — it's got all the ingredients that people crave: sugar, salt, fats.

You will burn out, make irrational decisions, and be left exhausted.

A degenerative brain condition much talked about lately and possibly linked to everything from irregular, aggressive behaviors, irrational decision making and spiraling descents into depression.