'develop preference' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in any context where you want to emphasize the need to make or strengthen a preferring of one thing or another. For example, "We need to develop preference for more sustainable products."
It can develop preferences, thanks to a pleasure centre that generates what Dr Edelmann calls good taste in response to those rewards.
In a series of recent studies conducted on spiders, it was shown that females develop preferences for novel, artificially modified male phenotypes when exposed to them as juveniles.
He hopes to find out how smartphone users make decisions and develop preferences and values, and how smartphone technologies can be redesigned to align our behaviors with our goals.
The inclusion of person is relevant when considering surveys with the general population on health and health-related preferences that are used to develop preference-based measures of HRQoL [11 13].
Regarding health state valuation – as a healthcare outcome – standard gamble (SG), time trade-off (TTO), and rating scales are the most widely used techniques to elicit health state preferences (e.g., to develop preference-based HRQoL instruments like EQ-5D).
"We have evidence in laboratory animals of a shared vulnerability to develop preferences for sweet foods and for cocaine," said study author Francesco Leri.
Some point to the phenomenon of deformed preferences: when attractive options are limited or arrangements unfair, people may develop preferences for those limits or for less than their fair share (Nussbaum 1999a, 33, 50; Cudd 2006, 152).
Research shows that people develop preferences and stick to them, especially if they are rewarded, according to Gerrit Antonides, professor of Economics of Consumers and Households at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
"Children develop preferences as a collective phenomenon," he explained.
