concept known as rational irrationality was popularized by economist Bryan Caplan in 2001 to reconcile the widespread existence of irrational behavior (particularly...

Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking, or acting without rationality. Irrationality often has a negative connotation, as thinking and actions...

In mathematics, the irrational numbers are all the real numbers that are not rational numbers. That is, irrational numbers cannot be expressed as the ratio...

enjoy such beliefs. Rational irrationality simply states that when it is cheap to believe something (even when it is wrong) it is rational to believe it. They...

set of rational numbers is countable, and the set of real numbers is uncountable, almost all real numbers are irrational. The field of rational numbers...

forms of rationality. A thing that lacks rationality is either arational, if it is outside the domain of rational evaluation, or irrational, if it belongs...

such voters would be rationally motivated to vote. Paradox of voting Rational choice Rational ignorance Rational irrationality Voting behavior Voting...

actually proves that π 2 {\displaystyle \pi ^{2}} is irrational. As in many proofs of irrationality, it is a proof by contradiction. Consider the sequences...

mathematics, an irrationality measure of a real number x {\displaystyle x} is a measure of how "closely" it can be approximated by rationals. If a function...

Agency (sociology) Argument from authority Bounded rationality Mooers's law Rational irrationality Satisficing Sociology of scientific ignorance Downs...

The process of transforming an irrational fraction to a rational fraction is known as rationalization. Every irrational fraction in which the radicals...

mental states are rationally evaluable: they are either rational or irrational depending on whether they obey the norms of rationality. But other states...

In mathematics, a rational function is any function that can be defined by a rational fraction, which is an algebraic fraction such that both the numerator...

RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute...

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, published in 2007, further develops the "rational irrationality" concept from Caplan's...

number is irrational. The square root of 2 was the first such number to be proved irrational. Theodorus of Cyrene proved the irrationality of the square...

Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), previously called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy, is an active-directive, philosophically and...

ideas of the irrationality of decision making as he found that given preferences, individuals will not always choose the most rational decision and therefore...

underlines the importance of rational argument, drawing attention to the fact that many intolerant philosophies reject rational argument and thus prevent...

Irrationalism in the true sense refers to worldviews that are particularly characterized by the moment of irrationality and that also put rational thinking...

Bounded rationality Elitism Ethical egoism Game theory Good and evil Property dualism Rational irrationality...

rational egoism holds that to not pursue one's own interest is unequivocally irrational. Its weaker form, however, holds that while it is rational to...

theory and economics to describe a threat in a sequential game that a rational player would not actually carry out, because it would not be in his best...

economic man, is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational and narrowly self-interested, and who pursue their subjectively defined...

University of Pennsylvania. Phd diss. 5. Caplan, Bryan. "Rational Ignorance versus Rational Irrationality." http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/rationalignorancevs...

theorem One-shot deviation principle Prim–Read theory Rational ignorance Rational irrationality Sperner's lemma Zermelo's theorem Subfields Algorithmic...

The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment involving two rational agents, each of whom can either cooperate for mutual benefit or betray...

The process of transforming an irrational fraction to a rational fraction is known as rationalization. Every irrational fraction in which the radicals...

transcendental irrational numbers) are irrational numbers, since all rational numbers are algebraic. The converse is not true: Not all irrational numbers are...

Players wrongly distrusting each other's rationality may adopt counter-strategies to expected irrational play on their opponents’ behalf. This is a...