SYSTEMATIC REVIEW SOURCE This is a rational clinical examination abstract, a regular segment of the Annals’ Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM) series. Each segment features an abstract of a rational clinical examination review from the Journal of the American Medical Association and a commentary by an emergency physician knowledgeable in the subject area. The source for this rational clin...

This article surveys the latest research on risky-choice framing effects, focusing implications for rational decision-making. An influential program of psychological suggests that people's judgements and decisions depend way in which information is presented, or ‘framed’. In a central choice paradigm, decision-makers seem to adopt different preferences, attitudes risk, depending whether options...

Rational choice theory is pragmatically used by mainstream economics to explain and defend the existence and behavior of prevailing social and economic institutions as being optimal. Every deviation in actual individual and institutional behavior from the optimum is attributed to imperfections in the agents’ ability to pursue the optimal actions rather than the implausibility of the underlying ...

Product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. One can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. Apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...