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    Is ‘being emotional’ irrational?

    Cue Mariah Carey’s Emotions On the one hand, emotions are often present when irrationality is, too. Children get angry and hit their siblings or peers. That rarely, if ever, accomplishes what they really should have wanted–paradigmatic irrationality. Anger and irrationality correlated. We feel lonely and seek the company of our exes, even though we’re fairly confident that we cannot have a healthy long term relationship with them, thus investing time in something we know will not return much for the investment. But was our irrationality caused by the emotion or something else? All kinds of examples of coupled emotion and irrationality abound. But that does not mean that the emotions…

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