The phrase "acted rational" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct form would be "acted rationally," as "rationally" is the adverb that modifies the verb "acted."
Example: "In the face of adversity, she acted rationally and made sound decisions."
Alternatives: "behaved logically" or "responded sensibly."
In these situations, a professional must first cultivate a sense of calmness in the face of adversity in order to act rational in situations where irrationality becomes all too common.
They based their theories on an ideal world where people acted as "rational agents," exploiting any opportunity to increase their pleasure or benefit.
Behavioral economics had finally arrived: a discipline that for a half-century had built its theories on the rigid assumption that people acted with rational, unemotional self-interest had formally recognized that human beings had another, feisty, side to them.
First, they are biased in their emphasis on "rationality" – that is, patients are assumed to act as rational agents capable of conceiving a symptom as a threat, and medical professionals are assumed to have the ability to reduce this threat.
Psychologists and other social scientists have repeatedly shown that when confronted with diverse information choices, people rarely act like rational, civic-minded automatons.
If he had been more self-aware, he would have known that he acts stubbornly rational in the face of aggressive outbursts such as Karen's.
The part of our brain that tells us to act like rational investors tends to be completely overtaken by much more powerful emotional impulses — impulses, Mr. Zweig writes, "that make us human".
"We have to turn back to basics," he said, and not give in to political pressures "that might distract us so that we do not act like rational human beings".
In "Following the Money, but Also the Mind" (Feb. 11), Louis Uchitelle discussed the increasing influence of behavioral economists -- those who say economics should do more than assume that people act with rational, unemotional self-interest.
A main goal of Allison's initial analysis was to show that the assumption, common among practitioners of foreign policy, that governments act as rational, unitary actors is fundamentally flawed.
Network companies should act economically rational when investing in their networks.
