Opportunities for expert manipulation are the result of collective choice instability: all voting rules that allow collective preference cycles also allow welfare-reducing manipulative persuasion by an expert.
At the end of treatment cycle 2, patients were asked which of the two study treatments given for reducing neurotoxicity they preferred (cycle 1, cycle 2 or no preference).
Similarly as for more common reciprocal preference relations, cycle transitivity plays a crucial role in this new setting.
For example, in a group evenly divided into men and women, the algorithm traditionally has individuals rank potential partners by level of preference and cycle through proposals and rejections until each individual is with the partner they prefer most (who isn't already engaged).
Given a set of individual preferences, if we compare each of the alternatives in pairs and apply majority voting, we may obtain an intransitive preference (or cycle) in the collective outcome, of the type that alternative x is preferred to y, y is preferred to z, and z to x.
"As it happens everywhere, name preference goes through cycles, and the name Jose has been overused over the last 20 years or so, and there are too many Joses".
Here we examined variation in preferences across the cycle for both facial masculinity and symmetry according to relationship context.
We found no significant differences between women's preferences during different cycle phases for either body or facial masculinity, or for facial symmetry.
The current study was designed to examine possible proximate mediators of one of the most thoroughly studied preferences shifts: women's mid-cycle preference for the scent of male symmetry.
