Sentence examples for preference component from inspiring English sources

What the preference component is taken to do here is "express the attitude holder's preference for how this uncertainty gets resolved" (2013: 8 28).

Anand and Hacquard's (2013) typology of attitudes is based on the semantics of the verbs determined by two meaning components—a representational component and a preference component.

Anand and Hacquard argue that the semantics of this type of attitude also contains a preference component, in addition to the representational component.

There may also be a consumer preference component, where the introverts are going to find themselves living in the suburbs, and the extroverts will be hanging out in downtown areas.

As for the attitudes, which have a hybrid semantics combining a representational component and a preference component, they allow epistemic possibility modals but disallow necessity modals; see 12 16 above.

Those with a representational component are representational attitudes, those with a preference component are non-representational attitudes, and emotive doxastics and dubitatives have a hybrid semantics, constituting the third type.

Similarly, measures of female copulation latency were used to estimate female preference components.

For example, preference components were measured on males for latency to court and copulation duration.

Within the mixed logit model, the βi is expressed as β + ηi, where β constitutes the vector of average preferences of the population for each attribute and ηi is the individual's specific preference components.

With respect to courtship latency and copulation duration, which measure male-controlled components of courtship and mating (Gilchrist and Partridge 2000; O'Dell 2003), an effect of male genotype indicates genetic variation in male preference components, whereas an effect of female genotype indicates genetic variation in female attractiveness.

To do this, we designed a survey protocol that included both attitudinal questions and a stated-preference component.