Prior work has documented overt preferences for helping over hindering agents, measured by both looking times and preferential reaching (Hamlin et al., 2007, 2010) at the same age.
The findings revealed complex negotiations between family and patients about moving into a nursing home (often dictated by need rather than preference); the use of the patient's personal historical identity and previous wishes to guide decision-making in the absence of overt preferences; and difficulties for the family in balancing the patient and their own wishes.
John McGinnis, a law professor at Northwestern University, who generally opposes race-conscious admissions programs, said that the approach the court endorsed was a triumph for proponents of affirmative action, given the political unpopularity of overt preferences.
A negative relationship was found between the degree of preference for overt questions and the percent of overt questions answered correctly, and between the total time taken to complete the program and the percent of overt questions answered correctly.
This study investigated student preference for overt vs. covert responding in a web-based tutorial using a within-subject design.
But the selection process is lengthy and quirky, and while there's no overt "don't be dead" requirement, it's possible to infer a preference for a winner who can turn up to be photographed with civic dignitaries.
Qualitative findings revealed that despite having overt access to pain medications, considerable intra-ethnic heterogeneity existed in the preference for analgesia among this group of African Americans.
Their sensibility may fairly be said to be "liberal" in the sense that liberal education is liberal — that is, open-minded and urbane, with a preference for empirical inquiry over dogmatic conclusion-mongering — but what little overt political commentary they offer hovers around the moderate middle.
During PSNT, though sham rats showed a clear preference for the novel stranger, the cholinergically depleted animals did not exhibit overt social novelty.
Consumer preference for exciting designs?
