Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: [[Intrinsic motivation]] Units:: ___ # Rational Choice Theory Rational Choice theory is a model of human motivation coming from Economics which sees humans as perfect rational actors that make decisions which maximize their utility. While rational choice theory can be helpful in making better decisions, it’s insufficient to show why humans are motivated to do things for one key reason. Humans are silly! We often do things that don’t maximize expected utility as we aren't fully rational. Rather, [[Prospect theory]] is a better predictor of real human motivation.