"shift preference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a person's preferred work schedule or time slot for their shift at their job. Example: "When filling out the job application, please indicate your shift preference - morning, afternoon, or night."
Thus, supply-side interventions alone are less effective than when complemented by community participation or incentives that shift preferences and behaviours.
Assuming that aggressive individuals have upward-sloping indifference curves (i.e., they are motivated to harm others) serotonin augmentation again should shift preferences counterclockwise, reducing aggression, 85 whereas serotonin depletion should shift preferences further clockwise, increasing aggression.
It is adaptive to shift preferences depending on one's own mate value and opportunities (Penke & Denissen, 2008), and adjust the preferences to one's own attractiveness.
Assuming that people are predisposed to cooperate in social dilemmas 65 (i.e., that their indifference curves are downward-sloping, absent concerns about inequality), serotonin augmentation should shift preferences further counterclockwise, making people more cooperative, 84 whereas serotonin depletion should shift preferences clockwise, making people less cooperative.
Through regression analyses, we then examined which hormone levels predict cyclically shifting preference for the scent of male symmetry.
Shown in Figure 1, beginning at approximately the 20th trial, control subjects shifted preference toward advantageous decks, whereas cocaine-dependent subjects showed little change in preference over the 100 trials, favoring the disadvantageous decks.
Even within churches, shifting preferences and guidance have rewritten funeral rites.
Demand for public transit is rising across America, reflecting both population growth and shifting preferences in an era of high gas prices.
Shifting preferences may complicate measurement of a factor like student satisfaction.
The shifting preferences of most successful students in Turkey can also be found in Iran.
