Sentences with phrase «systematic irrationality»

The development of behavioral economics and its application to a variety of fields, including education, mostly seems to consist of trying to devise ways to correct the systematic irrationality of others.

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As IER's analysis of EPA's own table shows, the only way to ensure that the purported benefits of the rule exceed the admitted costs is to invoke massive and systematic consumer irrationality.

It was their findings that first suggested we might understand human irrationality in a systematic way.

But many social psychologists credit Kahneman and Tversky with a profoundly original theory of the human mind, one that exposes systematic, unconscious sources of irrationality, just as Freud's idea of the unconscious was taken to do by previous generations of psychologists.