The Rational Choice Theory proposes that our decision-making is based on our active calculation of costs vs. benefits and probability of costs/benefits to materialize, to drive our decisions. In your experience/opinion, is that always the case?
Human beings vary in making decisions. Some of them are so wise and they think of what consequences are expected due to any decisions they make. While others are so fast without thinking about any irrational consequences that may result until they discover later that they should have made reasonable mental reasonable calculations.
We all have different abilities when it comes to reasoning/thinking. Some think faster, some require longer time. This influence individual reactions to issue. Unfortunately, we all lack patience to accommodate one another on this. Interesting question. following.
Not always rational, some decisions make from heart without thinking their consequences.
Human beings vary in making decisions. Some of them are so wise and they think of what consequences are expected due to any decisions they make. While others are so fast without thinking about any irrational consequences that may result until they discover later that they should have made reasonable mental reasonable calculations.
Not at all. If human are always rational, then we wouldn't have wars that kill and injury innocent people.
Making some decisions from humans may be right or otherwise because they differ from person to person ...
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I found number of decisions are based on emotional values. You may called it as religious approach in decision making.
The decision-making depends on the balance between mind and emotion according to its internal and external self-division. It is supposed to ignore the emotional aspect and take rationality through the intellectual mind capable of creativity and then innovation in solving any problem, but the emotional aspect cannot be completely ignored. No human being is free of any feelings or human emotion.
People some time took the decision on the basis of values without much thinking about profit. Some time take heavy risk for self satisfaction.
Not all decisions are made rationally. Ideally the sequence of problem solving (decision making) may follow a path like this (similar to ABC of Rational Emotive Therapy, Dr. Albert Ellis):
1. Problem appears
2. One reacts to it initially perhaps with different emotions
3. One looks at the reason behind some of these emotions
4. If some of these emotions are negative analyze what one is saying to oneself regarding the situation or possible solution that is causing these negative emotions
5. Make a list of pros and cons for the different decision scenarios
6. Evaluate if any of these scenarios can bring about harm or negative consequences.
7. Choose that decision that you have made based on well thought out arguments and predicted outcomes and go with it.
This approach gives plenty of time between an event, your thought process, your emotions and your action (behavior/decision) which otherwsie may be separated only my milliseconds.
Excellent discussions. Dr. Amir W. Al-Khafaji you have made a good point but Dr. Segun Michael Abegunde and Dr. Hazim Al Dilaimy sort of has an explanation to your point, which is that although humans try to be rational, our ability to understand the cost and benefits and to do calculations varies tremendously. Dr. Srini Vasan , thanks for sharing the details about the process.
I think we generally rely on the situation. So decision-making can be the match of both rational and perceptual.
Muhammad Faheem Jan , great perspective. To play the devil's advocate, I will argue that even listening to heart offers a certain comfort, some reward that might be extremely dear from the decision-maker's subjective point of view, and therefore it may still be a rational decision.
There is no need to be rationale, always, while making decisions; sometimes it is good to make decisions from heart, example:
" Melania Trump waded into a debate over children being separated from their families at the Mexico border, saying the United States should "govern with heart" (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/17/melania-trump-hates-see-children-separated-families-amid-us/).
" "Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform," her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN on Sunday. "She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart." (https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/17/politics/melania-trump-children-separated-immigration/index.html)
Intellect try to make selfish decisions. But devotional intellect make true and pure decision.
No , not always the persons have rationalism in decision-making.
Good luck Sir.
It depends on situation. If people get into a critical / dangerous situation - any quick decision can be - salutary. Later - it becomes obvious that the quick fix found was not the best. However, the main thing is that the danger has been eliminated.
Sometimes, the best solution is to take no action at all. However, to maintain complete composure before any danger is inconsistent with the human’s thinking style. In other words, very few are capable of this.
I suppose so but only in situations where the answer is known and clear cut. However, in most situations, there is no clear cut answer to the question at hand, Hence humans make what they think is the most rational decisions yet they do not have the correct answer
Behavioral Economics suggests that we try to be rational in decision making, but can be misled in a variety of situations, a "recency" effect, an anchoring bias, etc. Most feel stronger about avoiding loss in a risky situation than trying to achieve a gain.
Muhammad Faheem Jan and Hazim Al Dilaimy for your thoughts that are among the most recommended.
Great contributions dear colleagues Hemin Vardhilal Thakkar Amir W. Al-Khafaji Segun Michael Abegunde , Hazim Al Dilaimy J Mac McCullough
Thanks, Ammar A. Oglat You and other colleagues are right on about the human decision making. We often don’t have capacity to do so.
Nope.
Please refer to
Kahneman, D. (2013). Thinking fast and slow. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica, 47(2), 263-291. *Their work earned Dr. Kahneman the Nobel in economics in 2002.
Excellent resource and right on answer; thank you so much Claire Su-Yeon Park
Human can use Intelact in making decisions,but due to lack of experience and training he can't use Intelact.
No, normally, we use something that in my concept, goes beyond the reason, our intuition, and although we can not explain or demonstrate, many times we work
It is generally said that Men are rational animal due to the rationality within human being men can performance his action with his mind ,body , & intellectual status within you .
Every human beings right from every action a decision is required & the decision is a guiding factor for every action of his life .Due to the human nature & his behavior sometime decision making takes an adverse turn than he has to make an energetic approach & may arrange to rectify the action however with any wrong decision in any form for which human being has to pay necessary disturbing his part of his wrong action
This is my personal opinion
No. It is mostly the professional judgments play a major role.
Not really, most decisions are sentimantially oriented
Catia Cillóniz ; Ivan David Lozada Martinez thank you for your contribution.
@Marwah Firas , @Ammar , @Mushtaq, thanks for your interest in this discussion.
'Rational' pace of humans are accepted by 'Society' & inverse direction of any individual is panic for same individual on social platforms.
'Sin' gravity effect stay for next four generation & individual hurting 'Humanity' via human action or authorative action implicitly extending proportional effect to 'Family' & 'Descendents'
'Protection of humanity is future investment' & none above 'Law of Nature'
Pankaj Tomar , thanks for your contribution and participation in this discussion.
Rationality in decision-making varies according to the importance of the decision itself. Therefore, manhe or she finds their selves rational in making a decision that directly affects his or her interest. Thus, rationality is proportional inversly with emotions.
It's difficult to be rational in decision making, as it is a multi-step process for making choices between alternatives. This process of rational requires to sound objective, logic and analytic rather than subjective, illogic and incoherent.
Not always. It depends on several factors including the aspect, time, circumstances, etc.
One has to be akways rational in making decisions , otherwise, he/ she may blame themselves for making inappropriate or wrong decisions.
no,there are so many factors that effect your decision
some times you don't want to do you are forced and revise your decision
specially when you are at higher post in under developed countries
depends on situation
occasionally the decision taken after due rationalisation are in correct
Dear Hazim Al Dilaimy , Hemin Vardhilal Thakkar , @Muhammad Javed, thanks for sharing your insights.
The principle in marketing is to make people feel moved and cry, leading to increase the profit of the company, which is against the statement that humans are always rational in decision-making.
Actually human is intactual animal, but we are using only 5-10% of intelact for making decisions.
it is not necessary to be rational all the time in decision-making. we as human beings are rational and emotional figures. how can we leave one part to be replaced by the next half. some of our emotions save our spiritual being.
- Claire Su-Yeon Park , Hemin Vardhilal Thakkar , thank you colleagies, for your contribution to this discussion.
The rational-decision-making approach does not consider factors that cannot be quantified, such as ethical concerns or the value of altruism. It leaves out consideration of personal feelings, loyalties, or sense of obligation. Its objectivity creates a bias toward the preference for facts, data and analysis over intuition or desires. People are often willing to choose an acceptable option rather than the optimal one. This is especially true when it is difficult to precisely measure and assess factors among the selection criteria.
Not always, some decisions are taken from the heart or circumstances force a person to make some decisions without rationality.
اعتقد ان اغلب البشر عند اتخاذ القرار يفكر في مقدار المصلحة المتاتية من اتخاذ القرار لاتخاذه وهذا يشمل حتى المصلحة العاطفية وبذلك يكونون عقلاء باتخاذ القرار ولكن من وجهة نظرهم.
think that most people when making a decision think about the amount of interest derived from the decision to take. This includes even the emotional interest and so they are wise decision-making, but from their point of view
Every time it is not true although many a time it may be true. Depending on condition, people become emotional and take decision emotionally without thinking the consequences. And some person always take the decision emotionally.
Sandhyarani Khomdram , Wahag Abass , Zainab J. Khudhair thank you for the value addition to this discussion.
Most people try to be rational in making decisions, but many of these decisions prove to be irrational and often lead to negative consequences.
Being rational is what everyone advocated, but we cannot be rational all the time. It depends on time, place, situation, emotion. The position of a man like status and power also matters the degree of rationalism. Like the PM or President. Their rationalism often get influenced by many external factors.
Social platform is 'Rational' & inverse ideology create reaction by 'Society' via 'Culture'
Dear Sanatombi Devi Yumkham , I absolutely agree with your perspective.
Dear Shah,
Your prelude simply says that humans in most cases are not rational, not reasonable in terms of truth, but instead they tend to do what they think will benefit them away from being reasonable. Repetitive failures of societies for instance are indicators/results of irrationality in behaviors and decision making processes.
The so-called rational decision of some, can be a passionate decision for some others, the ruling on the subjects and decisions sometimes differ with time, and controlled by many circumstances, This varies according to wisdom, experience, age and individual circumstances
Dear Shah, Before responding the answer “Are humans really always rational in decision-making?”. We should try to understand one thing very clearly. What do you understand by right and wrong? The fact is right and wrong Don’t Exist, If morality doesn’t exist. But where does our sense of morality come from? Why is eating meat acceptable while slavery is not? Don’t they both take advantage of other living beings?
One rationale is that slavery is immoral because it abuses human beings while eating meat is okay because it is only involves animals. But who drew that distinction? Why do we treat humans as special even though many animals we consume have proven to be extremely intelligent? Some of you may believe that “it just is.” Enslaving other humans is a self-evident wrong because it feels wrong while eating animals is okay because it doesn’t trigger the same moral disgust.
Even, it’s an ongoing philosophical debate about whether drug addicts are rational—for in taking drugs they are, after all, maximizing their pleasure, even if they harm themselves in the process.
Even today we don’t all agree on what “right” is. Parts of the world still believe women belong in the household, the punishment for stealing is hand-chopping, and that 8 year-olds need to support their families through a factory job.
That’s because morality our ability to separate right from wrong doesn’t really exist.
Regards
Gennady Fedulov , thank you sir for your valuable perspective on this discu topic. I greatly appreciate it.
Dr. Sadanand Pandey , thank you for your post. I agree that unlike what functionalism perspective proposes, there is a lot of grey in social arena. Similar to what symbolic interactionism say about social reali and the way right and wrong get defined.
Yes they are so rational in decision-making especially when there is a smell of money.
Dear Dr. Houda Kawas , Salem Elsheltat , thank you for your contributions.
According to the Trend Korea 2018, people pay for their perceived satisfaction rather than usability of the services or products. That explains why people purchase useless yet pretty low-cost subjects in DAISO. That is, human is not always rational in their decision making. Instead, people's perceived emotion matters. It suggests us that we (healthcare scientists) need to pay more attention on psychology and marketing for people's desirable decision making.
Research shows that not always, but usually rational decisions are taken in situations where it is indicated or necessary.
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The human brain is set up to simultaneously process two kinds of information: the emotional and the empirical. But in most people, emotional responses are much stronger than the rational response and usually take over...
Decision Making Isn't Always As Rational As You Think (or Hope)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070215144329.htm
Decision making is various and it depends on the person himself
Dear colleagues, I greatly appreciate your value-addition to this discussion. I have learned a lot.
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