Self-interest describes actions that are intended to result in personal gain. It comes with both pros and cons.

On November 13, 2024, the Apex Court, invoking Article 142 of the Constitution, gave guidelines in compliance with which alone properties can be demolished. Despite the guidelines, bulldozer ...

The essential purpose of these legal requirements is to ensure that rational analysis, not community frustration, drives a project. The best way forward is to do the analysis now rather than in the ...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps you identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the nature of irrational and unproductive feelings, and replace ...

In doing so, Dell eschews the more common, qualitative approach to analyzing drug cartels’ behavior based on case studies, in favor of one which employs rational choice theory. According to her, the ...

It would be nice to think that we humans are capable of learning the lessons of such counter-productive experiences of ranting replacing rational analysis and action.

For each participant, Tappin and McKay used the coefficient of similarity to compute inferred self-judgments—how participants should have rated themselves if their ratings were rational.

Through the poetry of William Blake, Kenzaburo Oe takes a new approach to probing the emotional consequences of his father's death, and parenting a severely disabled son.

John Cassidy, a writer for The New Yorker, talks with Renee Montagne about his new book How Markets Fail. Free market believers say that when individuals act in their own rational self-interest ...

Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is a type of cognitive therapy that focuses on challenging irrational thoughts. Learn more about the history of this therapy, how it’s used, and how it ...