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What Psychology Has to Say About Preferences

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Working with Preferences: Less Is More

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In the previous chapters we addressed various problems related to the representation of and reasoning with preferences. These problems are mainly grounded in mathematical and philosophical approaches representing how the users are expected to behave [25, 26]. Therefore, a preference relation is usually supposed to be transitive, different completion principles are used when preferences are incomplete, and so on. Nevertheless, preferences should benefit from special attention to the hypotheses we intend to consider. This is because preferences fundamentally differ from beliefs and knowledge; they are purely subjective information. Accordingly, it is worth trying to turn to experimental sciences in order to support (or not) the hypotheses, methods, etc. In this chapter we are interested in psychology of preferences.

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Kaci, S. (2011). What Psychology Has to Say About Preferences. In: Working with Preferences: Less Is More. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17280-9_5

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