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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"irrationality"”.
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Irrationality and marital adjustment
The purpose of this study was to find if a relationship exists between rationality and marital adjustment. Specific relationships tested were between spouses' rationality scores, spouses' marital adjustment scores, spouses' combined rationality scores and spouses' combined marital adjustment …
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Revising muses: Irrationality, creativity, and composition
… teacher -- Inspiration, intuition, emotion -- Irrationality and writing.
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Revising muses: Irrationality, creativity, and composition
… teacher -- Inspiration, intuition, emotion -- Irrationality and writing.
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Addressing predictable irrationality: insights from practice
The traditional repertoire of techniques available to mediators is well-suited to assisting negotiators in resolving their disputes where those negotiators are acting in a manner approximating axiomatic rational behaviour. These techniques rely on parties acting in this manner and effectively and …
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A Bound for the Irrationality Measure of & zeta(3)
<p>This thesis presents an upper bound for the irrationality measure of &zeta(3), where &zeta denotes the Riemann zeta function. Results are presented in three steps: a linear combination of 1 and &zeta(3) depending on certain parameters is expressed as a triple integral, a description of the group …
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Seventeenth-century musical fantasy : origins of freedom and irrationality
The essence of seventeenth-century musical fantasy lies in the contemporary notion of freedom. Contemporary fantasy genres and verbal descriptions of fantasy highlight freedom from given tonal, harmonic, and temporal frameworks. This freedom assumes the composer's ingenuity (freedom to command the …
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Animal spirits: Examining stock market irrationality via effects of language
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Rationality or irrationality of preferences? Quantitative tests of decision theories
To have transitive preferences, for any options x, y, and z, one who prefers x to y and y to z must prefer x to z. Transitivity of preferences is a very fundamental element of utility and plays an important role in many major contemporary theories of decision making under risk or uncertainty. One …
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Rationality or irrationality of preferences? A quantitative test of intransitive decision heuristics
In this paper, I present a comprehensive analysis of two decision heuristics that permit intransitive preferences: the lexicographic semiorder model and the similarity model. I also compare these two intransitive decision heuristics with transitive linear order models and two simple transitive …
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Rational irrationality; the making of property decisions in firms as a part of resource allocation processes- a Korean example
According to the profit maximising assumption and neoclassic economics view of the behaviour of the firm, no firm is expected to behave differently in the market or it will be forced out of the market by incurring higher costs than the competitors. This research aims to investigate how property …
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Irrationality and transcendence in the 18th and 19th centuries. A contextualized study of J. H. Lambert's Mémoire (1761/1768)
… known for including the rst demonstration of the irrationality of π, an analysis that is accompanied with a biography of its author. The research of this work and its author is not done separately. Rather, it is contextualized by analyzing the development of the so-called <<special irrationals>> …
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A sociological study of the relationship between religious violence and economic globalization
… "grand scenario" theory. Chapter 3 examines the irrationality of economic globalization. The irrationality of economic globalization is described and theorized as New Colonialism, McDonaldization, and McWorld. Throughout this chapter the brutality of economic globalization is exposed. Chapter 4 …
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Balancing the Scale of Rationality: The Public Memory of the Boston Tea Party and the Transformation of Dissent
… earlier as these women balanced assertions of irrationality with rational argument. Finally, I analyze the Modern Tea Party Movement and conclude that their movement has been overwhelmed by irrationality. Thus, they have transfigured the tradition of Tea Party dissent in America.
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A study of furor in Republican and Augustan literature
… will this investigation detail all aspects of irrationality, derangement, or madness revealed in Roman culture or society. Instead, the procedure will be to investigate in roughly chronological outline the concept of the word furor; in addition, other terms that denote or connote irrationality, …
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Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
… assumed that disagreements rooted in bias and irrationality can be ignored or idealized away by philosophers developing ideal theories, that is, theories that aim to sketch the normative outlines of an ideal society. In Chapters 2 and 3, I argue that this assumption is mistaken because even …
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A numerical investigation of Apéry-like recursions and related Picard-Fuchs equations
… which was used by Apery in his proof of irrationality of the zeta function values at 2 and 3. It is a continuation of the work of Zagier , who considered generalization of the first equation and numerically investigated it. The study is made for two generalizations of the second equation, …
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The expression of George Orwell’s racial and social attitudes
… two major satires are seen to bear this out. The irrationality of racial (imperial) myths are seen to have much in common with contemporary political behaviour: Socialist ‘doublethink’ about Empire paving the road to totalitarianism, and the in-group/out-group urges of Anglo-India being related to …
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