"I use the example to try to get them to see that thinking rationally like that doesn't always lead to rational choices," she said.
"Now people are making more rational choices".
John Lloyd in the FT says televised leaders' debates do not help voters make rational choices.
Online matchmaking is premised on the notion of making rational choices.
Politics is too often shaped by emotions and reactions, rather than rational choices.
Or we can try to prod people toward more rational choices, as "Nudge" suggests.
We don't have a consumer who understands everything and makes rational choices -- and I include myself here.
WE make all sorts of ostensibly conscious and seemingly rational choices when we are aware of a potential risk.
His research examines how individuals make rational choices among religious alternatives and how religions compete in what is, thanks to the First Amendment, the nation's freest marketplace.
Despite that information deficit, champions of American public opinion have steadfastly defended its ability to fill in the holes and make rational choices.
And individually rational choices, such as the choice not to hurt your performance by wearing a helmet, can add up to a collectively irrational outcome.
