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Preference and affiliation refines the neurotranscriptome pathway for mate preference
… in total) in which two social-choice behaviors (preference and social affiliation) were measured. To capture the genes underlying these decisions, the brains of each female were sequenced (Illumina RNA-seq) directly following the behavioral assay.
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Drug of Preference
Novel excerpt
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Adaptive Preference Tradeoffs
… and political philosophers call an adaptive preference (AP): a preference, formed under oppressive circumstances, that seems to perpetuate the agent’s own oppression. Prevailing opinion is that forced tradeoffs—especially following Serene Khader’s taxonomy—, like the case presented above, are …
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Preference accommodating and preference shaping : incorporating traveler preferences into transportation planning
… proposes a structure for analyzing traveler preferences that incorporates these psychological factors into travel behavior analysis. A set of eight factors are presented as the latent elements of travel preferences to illustrate the structure, including two personality traits; three …
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Summarizing Conditional Preference Networks
Preference modeling has been studied extensively in the literature, and has applications in recommender systems and automated decision-making. The eventual objective of working with preference models is to be able to reason about preferences over objects, often referred to as outcomes. In most of …
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Essays on Social Preference
… related to experimental investigation of social preference. We investigate the effects of a pure income effect on social preference in the first essay. In the second essay we explore the effects of gender in altruism and the corresponding anticipation behavior. The third essay discusses the …
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Identification of Preference Categories
A 16-item paired stimulus (PS) preference assessments was utilized to identify preference categories. A single item from both the highly-preferred (HP) and less preferred (LP) categories as well as two categorically similar but untested items were then utilized during a reinforcer assessment. An …
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Dimensions of Occupational Preference
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Chronic Stress during Adolescence Alters Alcohol-Induced Conditioned Place Preference in Mice Selectively Bred for High Alcohol Preference but no Low Alcohol Preference
… exposure, all subjects began a conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm, a behavioral task that measures the sensitivity to alcohol's rewarding effects. Since re-exposure to a stressor has been associated with an increased risk in relapse and other drug-seeking behaviors, half of the subjects …
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Progressive Response Effort Preference Assessments
… Multiple stimulus with replacement (MS) preference assessment methodology was used and price was altered by increasing the distance of the stimuli from the participant. During the first assessment, the item chosen most frequently in the first session was systematically moved 6 - 24 inches …
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University preference : A conjoint analysis
… an understanding of what determines university preference. This study examines university preference in Western Australia. A form of conjoint analysis, known as Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA), was used to investigate the relative importance of a number of attributes to university preference. …
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Time Estimation And Hand Preference
This work examines the effect of participants' gender and handedness on the perception of short intervals of time. The time estimation task consisted of an empty production procedure with forty trials at each of four intervals of one, three, seven, and twenty seconds. The four target intervals …
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Preference Games and Sink Equilibria
… all classical games. We call this model a preference game. Preference games generalise classical games in that all classical games have an associated preference game. Preference games also have a natural choice of solution concept: the sink equilibria, which are the sink strongly connected …
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Preference Games and Sink Equilibria
… all classical games. We call this model a preference game. Preference games generalise classical games in that all classical games have an associated preference game. Preference games also have a natural choice of solution concept: the sink equilibria, which are the sink strongly connected …
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A Methodological Study of Preference
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Merger activity and investor preference.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1970. M.S .
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Revealed Preference Analysis Under Nontransitive Preferences
… presents three chapters that examine revealed preference theory under the assumption that economic agents may have nontransitive preferences. The first chapter introduces the Random Preference Model (RPM), a framework similar to the Random Utility Model (RUM) designed to explain consumer choice …
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