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• Rational Behavior — A decision making process that is based on making choices that result in the most optimal level of benefit or utility for the individual. Most conventional economic theories are created and used under the assumption that all individuals taking… …   Investment dictionary

• Rational ignorance — is a term most often found in economics, particularly public choice theory, but also used in other disciplines which study rationality and choice, including philosophy (epistemology) and game theory.Ignorance about an issue is said to be rational …   Wikipedia

• Rational choice theory — This article is about a theory of economics. For Rational Choice Theory as applied to criminology, see Rational choice theory (criminology). Economics …   Wikipedia

• rational — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English racional, from Anglo French racionel, from Latin rationalis, from ration , ratio Date: 14th century 1. a. having reason or understanding b. relating to, based on, or agreeable to reason ; reasonable < a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• rational — 1. Pertaining to reasoning or to the higher thought processes; based on objective or scientific knowledge, in contrast to empiric (1). 2. Influenced by reasoning rather than by emotion. 3. Having the reasoning faculties; not delirious or comatose …   Medical dictionary

• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy — (REBT) is a comprehensive, active directive, philosophically and empirically based psychotherapy which focuses on resolving emotional and behavioral problems and disturbances and enabling people to lead happier and more fulfilling lives. REBT was …   Wikipedia

• Rational expectations — is an assumption used in many contemporary macroeconomic models, and also in other areas of contemporary economics and game theory and in other applications of rational choice theory. Since most macroeconomic models today study decisions over… …   Wikipedia

• Rational Recovery — (RR) is a source of counseling, guidance, and direct instruction on self recovery from addiction, alcohol and other drugs through planned, permanent abstinence designed as an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Twelve step programs. RR… …   Wikipedia

• Rational egoism — is the thesis that the pursuit of one s own self interest is always rational. [Baier (1990), p. 201; Gert (1998), p. 69; Shaver (2002), §3; Moseley (2006), §2.] The view is a normative form of egoism. However, it is different from other forms of… …   Wikipedia

• rational — rational, reasonable may be applied to men, their acts, utterances, or policies in the senses of having or manifesting the power to reason, or of being in accordance with what reason dictates as right, wise, or sensible. Rational usually implies… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Rational reconstruction — is a philosophical and linguistic method that systematically translates intuitive knowledge of rules into a logical form. [ * Habermas, Jurgen. (1979). Communication and the Evolution of Society. Toronto: Beacon Press.] In other words, it is an… …   Wikipedia