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 ...

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

You prefer apples to oranges, but cherries to apples. Yet if I offer you just cherries and oranges, you take the oranges. That does necessarily mean you're crazy, according to a new study published in ...

Through the story of the whale ship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker describes how our most vivid fears are often not the most realistic. In Karen Thompson Walker's 2012 novel The Age of Miracles ...

For example, if for every highly negative outcome with a probability of 10 percent and which a rational decision-maker would avoid, then they will be avoiding negative outcomes that simply don’t ...