Sentences with phrase «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.
We all use them when meeting someone for the first time, and research shows that interviewers rely on these more than rational analysis when assessing a candidate.
Sounds to me like her «conversion» probably had a romantic motive rather than a rational one.
For example, there are more irrational numbers than rational numbers.
It turns out that most of the reasons people cite for preferring dividend stocks are driven by emotions rather than a rational analysis of the facts.
They say people make decisions on how they feel rather than rational thought.
The government can drive this bubble further than a rational observer would expect.
Doesn't matter... stock prices can remain pumped on pure emotion longer than rational people can comprehend.
Sadly a lot of investors base that on hope, or a yarn spun, rather than rational expectation.
Therefore, it influences many of our choices in ways different than those the rational brain might.
The market can go up for years more, higher than any rational person would ever expect.
Getting out of debt can be more psychological than rational.
Tell stories to have more influence over people — emotional connections have a far greater impact than rational ones, or even a combination of the rational and emotional.
But that sense is overwhelmingly emotional rather than rational, a sensibility and a sensation rather than a solution.
He emphasizes that «a rational self, no matter how momentary, can not be satisfied with less than a rational aim, and no aim short of some universal long - run good is fully rational» (CS 198, my emphasis).
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).
If it turns out that we are more than rational beings with interests, and that we make claims (sometimes angrily) based on honor and the need for recognition, then consent and deliberation that ignores more poignant spurs to action than mere interest will often fall short.
It was an emotional rather than rational reaction.
In short, Toyota wants the Camry to be something other than a rational decision.
Despite this, in - house teams are overwhelmingly appointing law firms based on personal connections rather than a rational appraisal of which firms would be best for the job.
Greider, a senior journalist at the Nation, and Wight, an economist at the University of Richmond, understand that capitalism is more than a technical economic system and that it is supported by more than rational argument.
Humans are intuitive rather than rational animals!
The case changed the standard for gender - related cases, with the plurality arguing for strict judicial scrutiny, rather than rational basis review.
As Enquiro's research shows, buyers are more risk - averse than rational, and there is a gap between the vendor's rational image of the customer and the buyer's attempt to minimize the risk.
Humans, more rationalizing than rational, have devolved modernity into rationalized lust.
Consider this: supposedly, something like 35 % of us have had transcendental experiences and these experiences resonate «Truth» in a way that is far more intimate than our rational / sensory - based experiences.
Democratic politics is the art of persuasion, which, however passionate, requires civility and diplomacy no less than rational debate.
To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the infinite reach of empty space and the eternal stretch of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God» (3:1).
Authority and power tends to prefer the people be spellbound than rational.
«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?
In other words, better be deluded than rational...
Downthumb this all you want people, the truth needs to be said and I am sick of ignorance spreading quicker than rational thought!
And you have somebody who's in a position where they don't have to make decisions and can be a bit more emotional rather than rational about things in a world where copy - knocking is king.
This means that his idea of liberalism is drawn from Immanuel Kant who, while still engaged with defending morality, ultimately offers no basis for it other than a rational individual will (the famous categorical imperative).
It is not easy to untangle 20.000 laws and regulations of the European acquis; there are numerous veto players on both sides of the negotiating table; and under the glare of the media emotions will play a greater role than rational calculations in the process of bargaining.
«The salaries are often determined more by politics than rational judgment.»
The complexity of the brain has meant that most successful drugs for treating disorders like depression, psychosis and bipolar disorder were discovered by accident and trial and error rather than rational design.
Yes, it is bewildering that there will be no «next shuttle launch date» as there has been for most of the past 30 years, but let's admit it, the loss now felt is more a visceral reaction than a rational assessment of where the space programme of the US and the rest of the world actually stands — and where it's headed.
«I think it would be marvelous if this trial worked, but it really seems more like a «Hail Mary pass» than a rational therapy,» he says.
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