Contrary to my critics, voter irrationality does not imply that economists cannot mitigate political failure. With rational voters, reform-minded economists have few viable tactics; with irrational voters reformers have more options. Rational voters can be swayed only by facts and logic; irrational voters could respond to better rhetoric. Rational voters strategically punish those who ignore th...

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...

Over the course of this article, we will discuss irrational numbers and several different ways to prove their existence. As is commonly known, the real numbers can be partitioned into rational numbers and irrational numbers. Rational numbers are those which can be represented as a ratio of two integers — i.e., the set { b : a, b ∈ Z, b 6= 0} — and the irrational numbers are those which cannot b...

BACKGROUND Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) assumes that rational beliefs act as cognitive protective factors against the development of psychopathology; however little empirical evidence exists regarding the nature of the possible protective effects that they offer. AIMS The current study investigates whether rational beliefs moderate the impact of irrational beliefs on posttraumati...