Why Humans Are Neither Rational or Irrational

Yasmeen El Gerbi
4 min readNov 29, 2019
Photo by Igor Miske on Unsplash

The argument that humans are irrational has grown popular in recent years, and the most common explanation is that humans have many cognitive biases which causes distorted thinking and irrational behavior. Amos Tversky and Daniel kahneman are the two Psychologists who discovered the origins of cognitive bias and revolutionized our understanding of how the brain works. They helped us understand that human…

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Yasmeen El Gerbi

I like exploring the complexity underlying our ideas, emotions, stories, norms, and lives.