Irrational drug use is associated with adverse consequences including drug resistance and avoidable adverse drug reactions. Studies of rational drug use in psychiatric facilities are scanty. This study evaluated prescription practices and perception of health care professionals regarding causes of irrational drug use. A retrospective study conducted at the outpatient clinic of Federal Neuropsyc...

Abstract. To date, there has been inconclusive evidence on the predictive ability of health-related cognitive distortion, as measured by Irrational Health Belief Scale (IHBS), regarding health behaviors (HBs). The aims our study were to provide a validation Slovak translation IHBS and assess relationship with wide range HBs, well HBs over above other psychological constructs. A total 448 studen...

Is self-knowledge a requirement of rationality, like consistency, or means-ends coherence? Many claim so, citing the evident impropriety asserting, and alleged irrationality believing, Moore-paradoxical propositions form < p, but I don't believe that p>. If there were nothing irrational about failing to know one's own beliefs, they claim, then would be assertions beliefs. This art...

In a model that encompasses a general equilibrium framework, we consider a monopolist (a producer) with subjective beliefs that endogenously hedges against fluctuations in input prices in a complete market. We introduce a notion of entropy of beliefs, and we characterize long-run optimal rational investments with this entropy. For irrational beliefs, we show that long-run profits are a decreasi...

In this paper we consider the relation between beliefs and goals in agent theory. Beliefs play three roles in reasoning about goals: they play a role in the generation of unconditional desires from conditional ones, they play a role in adoption of desires as goals, and they play a role in the selection of plans to achieve goals. In this paper we consider the role of goals in reasoning about bel...