Irrational Behaviour

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Why do judges give longer sentences before lunch? Why can't India grow more quickly? Why are we more likely to believe something in a bold typeface and why, if the Malaysian economy is thriving, are Malaysians so worried by it? Hopefully that's persuaded you to listen to the programme and if it has, was that decision a product of rational thought or instinct? Nobel Prize winning economist, Daniel Kahneman, explains just how irrational much of our thinking is. Plus: A report from New Delhi's street of protests and we've been to Malaysia too - the country is growing at an enviable six per cent a year so why are so many Malaysians so anxious? (Photo: A woman watches an optical illusion shown 26 April 2007 at the Optikpark in Rathenow, eastern Germany. Credit: MICHAEL URBAN/AFP/Getty Images)