Irrationality

The Psychology Of Happy Endings

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Positivity, End Experiences, Emotional Forecasting, Nostalgia, 2011, Irrationality, Cognitive Bias, 2012, Mind, Mind Power Memory, Mind Power, Brain and Memory, Memory and Mind, Mind Memory, Memory Power, New Research, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Wray Herbert

Relatively pleasant endings can put a positive spin on even long, painful experiences, like the year 2011. And by this time next year, we'll likely have the same warm feelings about 2012.

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Rationality And Irrationality In Believers And Atheists

Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Insecurity, Religion, Atheism, Irrationality, Rationality, New Atheists, Christopher Hitchens, Religion Science, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Science and Religion, Religion and Science, Religion News
Deepak Chopra

Science has much to say about spirituality, and vice versa. They aren't enemies or natural opposites.

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What Greece Needs Now Is a New Hero

Vanessa Andris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Corruption, Tourism, Education, Global Economy, Greece, Retirement, Greece Debt, Irrationality, Euro, World News
Vanessa Andris

The critical function that a new hero can perform to bring Greece back from the brink of bankruptcy is to tap and redirect the passion that drove them there.

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When Hope Trumps Reason: The Science Of Irrational Optimism

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Nfl, Judgment, Superbowl XLII, Decision-Making, Optimism, Irrationality, Football Pools, Football Optimism, Optimism Football Pools, Football, Football Predictions, Superbowl Predicitons, Science, Healthy Living News
Wray Herbert

Psychological scientists are very interested in irrational optimism because it shapes our decisions in consequential realms like finance, romance and health care.

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Downward Christian Soldiers

Matthew Harwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihadism, Hutaree Militia, Evangelical Christians, Right-Wing Extremism, Irrationality, Christian Right, Militia, Violence, Christianity, Religious Violence, Hutare Militia, Huttaree Militia, Religion News
Matthew Harwood

The recent resurgence of right wing violence turned particularly bizarre and creepy over the weekend.

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Stumbling on Wins: Using Sports to Paint a Bigger Picture

David Berri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stumbling on Wins, Basketball, Irrationality, Rationality, Sports News
David Berri

The study of decision-making in sports helps us understand human decision-making. So the next time you debate who is better on the field of play, remember, this debate tells us something about how human beings see and understand the world.

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Why I Write

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Creativity, Transcendent, Insanity, Huffingtonpost, Writing, Reason, Intuition, Blogging, Irrationality, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

In the challenges, the fears, the dark in its obstinence, in its unique fearfulness -- we discover the mystery of life. Not as a thing to be dismissed but an infinite source of creativity to be loved.

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New Yorker 2009 Roundup

Nicholas Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Diary of an Aspiring New Yorker, Atul Gawande, New Yorker, Brain, Wall Street, Humor, Fiction, Malcolm Gladwell, Health Care, 2009, Irrationality, New York News
Nicholas Brown

It's resolution time. The new year has come and the booze-fiends are taking some time off, the philanderers are planning quality family time and delet...

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Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Yoga, Church, Burning Man, Kabbalah, Kirtan, Talmud, What-the-Bleep-Do-We-Know, Arianna Huffington, Meditation Retreats, Religion, The Secret, Rationality, Kabbalah Water, Narcissism, Meditation, Ufos, Huffington Post, Meditation Practice, Benefits of Yoga, Spirituality, Irrationality, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Jay Michaelson

All too often, however, spirituality reinforces rather than transcends conventional limits, boundaries, and notions of the ego. Sandwiched in between manicures and lunch dates, the quickie yoga class becomes just another way to augment and reinforce the self.

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A Call for National Teach-Ins on the Economy

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teach-Ins, Panic, Stock Market, John Kenneth Galbraith, Great Depression, Wall Street Crisis, Irrationality, Business News
Danny Schechter

Most of us don't have much of a sense of how systems and institutions and economic laws and cycles operate. We expect rationality in a marketplace driven by panicky irrationality.

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