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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alter preferences" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes to settings or options in software, applications, or systems.
Example: "To improve your user experience, you can alter preferences in the settings menu."
Alternatives: "modify settings" or "change options."
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First, we predicted that acute CORT would alter preferences for the opposite sex bird in both conditions in both sexes.
My approach is not to alter preferences, which is the strategy behavioral economists have adopted to produce cooperation, but rather to alter the way that agents optimize.
The analysis confirmed that drivers are relatively unlikely to alter preferences for high-emissions vehicles without strong support from subsidies and demand management policies.
Rating and ranking spreads in two experiments show that preference-based choices feed back into and alter preferences even if choices are not directly among similarly evaluated alternatives.
More abstract issues may be harder to think through initially.The results reveal a quirk of human behaviour that psychologists (and economists) have long been familiar with: that people's first responses may not be their "real" ones, and that pointing out the implications of a decision, particularly if it involves a direct cost to the individual, can alter preferences.
An incentive represents a motivation to perform a certain action and is therefore designed to alter preferences of what someone aims to do.
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The information treatments did not significantly affect consumer recycling behavior, however, they altered preferences for packaging material.
Also, the fasting component of the testing may have altered preferences for macronutrients during recovery [46], [47].
The β-clamp plays a major role in this decision, as shown by the isolation of a strain carrying a mutation in the dnaN gene, encoding the β-clamp, that exhibits altered preferences for DNA polymerases [15], [16].
Effectively altered preferences, in principle, should bring about positive changes in health service uptake.
In particular, the development discourse of government aid agencies and international organizations has altered preferences of bilateral donors [ 30].
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