Part of speech: modifier adjective. reckless. Acting or done with a lack of care or caution; careless or irresponsible. 10.

6 is a rational number because it can be expressed as the quotient of two integers: 6 ÷ 1.

“irrational numbers” Antonyms: rational, sane, coherent, logical, lucid, reasonable, thinking(a), intelligent, demythologized, demythologised, reasoning(a)

misunderstand. understand(verb) To be aware of the meaning of. Antonyms: misunderstand.

Rational thinking is the ability to consider the relevant variables of a situation and to access, organize, and analyze relevant information (e.g., facts, opinions, judgments, and data) to arrive at a sound conclusion.

Speak about your opinions rationally.

1. Have an explanation or evidence behind your opinions. It is important that you base your opinions on something.
2. Be critical about evidence or information that sparks beliefs or opinions.
3. Be open to changing your opinion if new evidence or arguments are presented.

The primary difference between thinking judgments and feeling judgments is the nature of their evaluative criteria. As we will see, thinkers tend to use impersonal, logic-based criteria, while feelers consider tastes and feelings—both their own and others’—in making decisions.

Logic solicits cognitive effort, whereas emotion is automatic. Presentations aimed at engaging the audience’s emotions are usually more interesting than logical ones. Emotion-based arguments are often easier to recall than logic-based arguments. Emotion almost always leads more quickly to change than logic does.

Examples of Emotional Reasoning Signs of emotional reasoning include thoughts like “I feel guilty, so I must have done something bad,” “I’m feeling inadequate, so I must be worthless,” or “I feel afraid, so I must be in a dangerous situation.”

When you’re using all-or-nothing thinking, you might be making decisions without all the information, Thorn said. For instance “My son will play either baseball or soccer” is limiting.

4 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions

1. Recognize emotional thinking. Emotions may be recognized by their impact on our cognition (Peters, 2016):
2. Self-compassion.
3. Talk about your feelings.
4. Reflection and reappraisal.
5. Stone of Life.
6. The effects on others.
7. Music.
8. Dealing with negative emotions.

This is an extreme form of all-or-nothing thinking in which we filter out all the positive evidence about our performance, and only attend to the negative. This cognitive distortion will produce automatic thoughts that reinforce negative feelings and explain away positive ones. …

Selective abstraction is “the process of focusing on a detail taken out of context, ignoring other more salient features of the situation, and conceptualizing the whole experience on the basis of this element” [1].

Should statements are thoughts that define what you think you SHOULD do. It’s a set of expectations that might not take your particular circumstances into consideration. While they might seem like motivators, should statements are actually a prime example of distorted thinking.

Emotional reasoning is a cognitive process by which an individual concludes that their emotional reaction proves something is true, despite contrary empirical evidence.

So we learn to manage our negative feelings. One common way we do this is by performing what I call “cognitive Photoshop”—rationalizing our feelings away and becoming needlessly stern with ourselves for having human emotions. Essentially, we use our intellect to explain and then functionally bypass our experiences.

The results indicate that the emotions of an individual have an effect on reasoning performance independent from task content. In particular, a negative emotion resulted in a lower falsification index meaning that participants in a negative emotional state were more likely to deviate from logical norms.

Being rational involves reason and is usually based on facts of reason. Being emotional involves emotions.