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About rationality and irrationality of our decisions

Authors :
Mora, Rodrigo
Source :
Fractal: Revista de Psicologia, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 425-428, Published: AUG 2011
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Departamento de Psicologia, 2011.

Abstract

Tal como sugiere su nombre, este texto postula que el comportamiento humano es fundamentalmente irracional, esto es, está gobernado por aspectos emocionales difíciles de explicar de acuerdo a explicaciones lógicas. Esta "irracionalidad" esta, no obstante lejos de ser aleatoria y estrictamente personal, sino que corresponde a un patrón regular con ciertas leyes y principios. Más aún, tal irracionalidad comprende distintos ámbitos del comportamiento, desde los procesos detrás de la compra de bienes muebles o inmuebles a los que definen las acciones éticas de las personas. As its title suggests, this book postulates that human behavior is fundamentally irrational, that is, driven by emotional factors that are difficult to understand for logical mind. This irrationality is, nonetheless, neither random or subjective, but to some extent predictable and rather universal. Furthermore, such irrational reasoning can be found at different levels , from the way in which people acquire small or large-scale goods (a TV set or a house respectively), to the way in which individuals make ethical decisions.

Details

Language :
Spanish; Castilian
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Fractal: Revista de Psicologia, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 425-428, Published: AUG 2011
Accession number :
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