Caring Habits (YOU?)
- Supporting
- Encouraging
- Listening
- Accepting
- Trusting
- Respecting
- Negotiating
Deadly Habits (THEM?)
- Criticizing
- Blaming
- Complaining
- Nagging
- Threatening
- Punishing
- Bribing
Let us suppose that it is THEM who exhibit those deadly habits, and assume that Choice Theory is valid (well, it is only a theory, after all!), then choosing such habits means they and we are doing the best they can as far as each of us experiences the situation.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Rational choice theory postulates that an individual chooses the best action according to her preferences and the set of actions available to her. The 'rationality' described by rational choice theory is different from colloquial and most philosophical uses of rationality in that it refers to consistent decision making given the same actions, preferences, and options.
Rationality in rational choice theory does not mean that the actions chosen by an individual are logically valid, or made with full or perfect information. Rational choice theory is a successor of much older descriptions of rational behavior. It is widely used as an assumption of the behavior of individuals in microeconomic models and analysis.
Although rationality cannot be directly empirically tested, empirical tests can be conducted on some of the results derived from the models. Over the last decades it has also become increasingly employed in social sciences other than economics, such as sociology and political science. Models that rely on rational choice theory often adopt methodological individualism, the assumption that social situations or collective behaviors are the result of individual actions.
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