Key points If someone made perfectly accurate judgments and sound decisions, would we recognize it? The science and philosophy of judgment and decision-making suggests that the answer is often “no.” ...

Human beings can be both rational and irrational, depending on the scientific lens in use. From a behavioral economics perspective, many decisions appear biased and suboptimal. From an ecological or ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A July 8 letter writer tells us that our universe is either rational, meaning we can reason it ...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an established cognitive-behavioural intervention centred on identifying and challenging irrational beliefs that contribute to emotional disturbances.

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...