This week’s reading Predictably Irrational was very valuable, and informative. While coming up with so many ways of thinking when it comes to behavior, I had no idea even existed. We talked last week about being rational, but this week and this week’s reading it discussed more about irrational, and predictable behavior. At the end of this summary I hope to have showed and understand the difference when it comes to irrational and predictable theories that can disrupt behavior, and decision making.
When it came down to a specific model I wasn’t quite sure which one we are talking about, because in the book Dan Ariely in my opinion has quite a few different experiment, models that are used to help better understand his argument. The model about
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When it comes down to rationality you actually do have to make different assumptions. I really don’t like the word assumption, because that means to me an individual opinion, not an evident fact. Again though surveys that are used though with the sexual arousal model allows us humans to use our senses that can dictate our emotions to make the best decision possible. You can say the same thing for the word predictions, because that isn’t a fact, it’s an opinion for what’s to come in the future. More religious people fall in this category in my opinion, and also I feel fall under predictably irrational behavior. Maybe religion in general has been a big the reason for the difference in decision making. We have parents who are supposed to discipline us when we do the wrong thing. Well first not everyone has the same right and wrong system, and punishment coming from other than parents or guardians, just doesn’t seem like true punishment. Even this parents and guardians eventually forgive us, but in a religious stand point no one human can say their God has punished them for this …show more content…
The first chapter I enjoyed was chapter 10, “The Power of Price.” The chapter talked about experiments suggest that more expensive things, higher perceived value have a better placebo effect. The experiment is where the people drank an energy drink, and those who had the more expensive version did better in a puzzle. However, the group who had the drink whose bottle specifically said that it helps people do better in puzzles, they actually did better than the group with the blank bottle. To me that showed me just how pictures and the things we see really do impact our decision making. If we see a name brand energy drink compared to a knock off brand energy drink does the name brand energy work better? I have been in those situations where I have felt a Red Bull did better than a monster energy drink, just because the Red Bull is more expensive. Both energy drinks in my opinion work the same, and to be honest who is to say they aren’t the same drink? I can just be different price and
The stronger an attitude is, the more likely it is to translate to one’s actions. Likewise, the more thorough the assertiveness is to the confined conduct, the more it will be pertinent for said behavior. If rational thought leads to the decision that a behavior should be done based upon a said assertiveness, and it is decided that the behavior can be done, most likely those behaviors will ascend (The THINK SPOT, 2013).
The writing style gave you a choice on what interesting subject you wanted to read, and also it gave you a preview of what the chapter was going to be about. The style of how it was written could also be a struggle for people. This book would not be recommended for people who wanted to stick to one specific subject; it would be a book for people who wanted an array of subjects. He does stick to one specific concept, which was bias. He has this subject scattered through the book, and they all mean different things. The experiments could be seen in positive light or negative, it depends on the type of reader you are. They can come out to be confusing but when you are able to play out the experiment it may be fun. The presentation of the book itself is an eye catcher, and maybe even the reading style will intrigue you to read it. This book is very intricate but you will not know if the information that is given will
My example of the rational choice theory of today is the mexican drug controls of December 2011. The drug trafficking organization in Mexico was highly rational, self-interested actors seeked to maximize profit.
In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the Rational Choice Theory(s) and the Trait Theory(s). We will start with the history of the two theories and progress toward some of the individual principles in the theories. Next step will be explaining how each theory contributes to criminal behavior. My closing paragraph will conclude the essay as well as give detailed information on how society punishes the crimes committed.
1. I agree with Melvin Konner when he said “People do not think or act rationally, even in their own self interest (944).” This can be seen in when people panic in high situations such as a fire. Recently, someone livestreaming, which is essentially a live recording of something, set his home on fire. Instead of thinking calm and rationally he attempted to put the fire out with other flammable materials.
Have you ever made a decision and later completely wonder why it is you made that decision? “Sway The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior” by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman examine moments of our lives where we could easily be swayed. The Brafmans discuss topics like commitment and value attribution. With examples of what attracts us into making a bad decision. The brilliant authors make it easy to understand the analyzations of the situations. Where there is a possibility of being swayed. With proper analyzation we can prevent these situations from taking place again. Almost everyone has made a decision we misunderstand and behind that decision is an irresistible pull of irrational behavior. No one is perfect, and no one can avoid being swayed into an irrational situation, not even me.
Human beings have a biological instinct to resist unusual. Our behaviors are influence through certainty. Not only do we learn through certainty, more significantly we are able to predict its outcome. However there are times when we just don't know why things happen or what to do after it has happened. The focus of this research is to illustrate that people react negatively to events that are uncertain because an outcome cannot be predicted.
There is a balance between rationality and
Rationalism is the theory that opinions and actions should be based on knowledge and experience rather than on “’irrational’ religious or emotional beliefs. The reasonable characteristics and ideas of facts and reason associated with rationalism contrast with the irrational ideas of literature throughout the novel. In Saturday by Ian McEwan the
What has everyone motivated fof to get to the point of having to cheat,lie or steal based how one processes in mind in terms of honesty.Dan Ariely’s irrational predictability paradigm explains in what drives the motives into two theories according to his NPR podcast about honesty and dishonesty.The first being the cost/benefit theory in which sets the mind to someone who questions what is gained beneficially and the price it’ll take to get there resulting to whether it's worth doing it or not.Next is the second theory involved on how the influence that comes from society is effective which is considered more believable as we take time to view into by asking the question of what behavior is to be engaged in or not,with this we look at others
"Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely is one of my all-time favorite books; as it shows parts of the human's behavioral patterns(primarily decision-making) and why we make the decisions we make, in a new perspective while introducing fresh, shocking yet true facts about us. A lot of the time we think that we opt for the rational choice while in reality many of our choices couldn't be more irrational and emotional. The book contains many points but for the sake of being brief, I'll discus one, which is why a cheap aspirin can never do what a more expensive one can.
Today’s class discussion was about Rational Theories, which states that individuals make reasonable decisions and apply them to their daily life activities. Individual make these decisions based on their best self-interest. The major points of the Rational Theory are: Routine Activities Theory, Lifestyle Theory and Rational Choice Perspective. Routine activities theory states that the circumstances of an individual’s life is mainly decided by the daily pattern of social interaction or activities.
Finally, guest feels the prize is not valuable for them to purchase an oversize room and manager gave them some discount to push the last big size room occupied.
Uttich and Lombrozo also studied the side-effect effect, but explained it differently than Knobe did. They said that the side-effect effect, the differences in ascribed mental states and traits pertaining to intentionality of an action, is due to the side effect’s norm status as opposed to moral status. They named this view the Rational Scientist view. While Knobe suggested the moral status of a side-effect influenced judgments on intentionality, Uttich and Lombrozo suggested that norm status is sufficient alone in producing the side-effect effect. Specifically, they said that norm-violating behavior that outweighs the reason to observe the norm is more informative in explaining intentionality of side effects compared to norm-conforming behavior. By default, people usually follow the norms, unless some sufficiently strong reason compels them to violate them. The Rational Scientist view is consistent with the Theory of Mind, in that internal states support explanation and prediction of behavior, but adds the vital role of norms in those predictions and explanations; moral norms affect Theory of Mind ascriptions by influencing mental state ascriptions.
First I will provide an overview of what rational choice theory is and why it has staked such a prominent position in the discipline of political science. In this section I conclude that rational choice theory has indeed developed advanced methodologies at telling us how rational agents should behave. Then in my second section I will show, using the empirical case of the free-rider problem and collective action, as well as the case of suicide terrorism, that rational choice theory cannot adequately account for actual political phenomena. In my third section I will provide some reasons for why this is the case. Finally, in my concluding section I will posit a theoretical framework incorporating some refinements to the assumptions behind rational choice theory that would better aid a predictive (but not universalist) political science.