People who suffer from eating disorders often have to be treated against their will, perhaps by being detained, perhaps by being forced to eat. In this paper it is argued that whilst forcing compliance is generally acceptable, there may be circumstances under which a sufferer's refusal of consent to treatment should be respected. This argument will hinge upon whether someone in the grip of an e...

present study is aimed at evaluating the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy (rebt) on anxiety and irrational beliefs among infertile women. to assess the level of anxiety and irrational beliefs, 50 infertile women were selected randomly from mediwave ivf and fertility research hospital in mysore city and were administered cattle questionnaires for surveying anxiety and the shortened ge...

In the empirical analysis we identify herding by documenting sequential correlation of lending decisions after controlling for listing heterogeneity and payoff externalities. We then distinguish rational herding from irrational herding based on the premise that publicly observable listing attributes should moderate the herding momentum if lenders are rational observational learners. In this sec...

One of the central goals of neuroeconomics is to understand the neural mechanisms that allow people to make decisions and act in ways that satisfy their preferences. In order to do so, neuroeconomists face something of a challenge ! they must strive to understand all aspects of our species’ decision-making strategies, including our systematic biases and seemingly irrational tendencies. Unfortun...

objective: this study aimed to compare irrational beliefs, defense mechanisms and marital satisfaction in fertile and  infertile women. materials and methods: this study was a causal comparative survey performed on 30 fertile and 30 infertile women chosen by available and simple random sampling out of the whole clients referred to vali-e-asr reproductive health research center from february 200...

goals prioritization, mental health and irrational beliefs are concept much discussed nowadays. this study aims to compare the goals prioritization of the students and its relation to mental health and irrational beliefs. this study was designed and completed descriptively. the sample included 216 students of allamehtabatabai university. students completed the goals and aspirations, mental heal...

A recent development in the cognitive science of reasoning has been the emergence of a probabilistic approach to the behaviour observed on ostensibly logical tasks. According to this approach the errors and biases documented on these tasks occur because people import their everyday uncertain reasoning strategies into the laboratory. Consequently participants' apparently irrational behaviour is ...