In psychology, economics and philosophy, preference is a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives. For example, someone...

expressed preference that differs from the underlying privately held preference (or simply, a public preference at odds with one’s private preference). People...

Préférence, frequently spelt Preference, is a Central and Eastern European 10-card plain-trick game with bidding, played by three players with a 32-card...

In behavioral economics, time preference (or time discounting, delay discounting, temporal discounting, long-term orientation) is the current relative...

In economics, convex preferences are an individual's ordering of various outcomes, typically with regard to the amounts of various goods consumed, with...

Preference utilitarianism (also known as preferentialism) is a form of utilitarianism in contemporary philosophy. Unlike value monist forms of utilitarianism...

behavior. Revealed preference models assume that the preferences of consumers can be revealed by their purchasing habits. Revealed preference theory arose because...

Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to different election systems or groups of election systems: Any electoral system that allows a...

System Settings (known as System Preferences prior to macOS Ventura) is an application included with macOS. It allows users to modify various system settings...

Common preference is an everyone wins situation in a number of places: Zero-sum game#Non-zero-sum Taking Children Seriously Win-win situation This disambiguation...

Son preference is the ancient and cross-cultural human preference for male (rather than female) offspring. Son preference has been demonstrated across...

Daughter preference describes human families seeking to bear and raise daughters, rather than sons. Daughter preference is evident in contemporary Japan...

Preference regression is a statistical technique used by marketers to determine consumers’ preferred core benefits. It usually supplements product positioning...

In economics, and in other social sciences, preference refers to an order by which an agent, while in search of an "optimal choice", ranks alternatives...

Look up preference in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Preference is a term used in scientific literature. Preference may also refer to: Preference (economics)...

Imperial Preference was a system of mutual tariff reduction enacted throughout the British Empire as well as the then British Commonwealth (now simply...

Gender preference may refer to: Sex selection, the attempt to influence the sex of the offspring Gender identity, personal identification of gender This...

A first-preference is a voter's most-preferred candidate. In certain ranked systems such as first preference plurality, ranked-choice voting (RCV), and...

In the psychology of color, color preferences are the tendency for an individual or a group to prefer some colors over others, such as having a favorite...

term preference relation is used to refer to orderings that describe human preferences for one thing over an other. In mathematics, preferences may be...

In macroeconomic theory, liquidity preference is the demand for money, considered as liquidity. The concept was first developed by John Maynard Keynes...

Dating preferences refers to the preferences that individuals have towards a potential partner when approaching the formation of a romantic relationship...

A trade preference is a preference by one country for buying goods from some other country more than from other countries. It grants special support to...

Preference learning is a subfield of machine learning that focuses on modeling and predicting preferences based on observed preference information. Preference...

In economics, lexicographic preferences or lexicographic orderings describe comparative preferences where an agent prefers any amount of one good (X)...

Social preferences describe the human tendency to not only care about one's own material payoff, but also the reference group's payoff or/and the intention...

firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child...

Mate preferences in humans refers to why one human chooses or chooses not to mate with another human and their reasoning why (see: Evolutionary Psychology...

align an intelligent agent with human preferences. It involves training a reward model to represent preferences, which can then be used to train other...

A liquidation preference is one of the primary economic terms of a venture finance investment in a private company. The term describes how various investors'...