LOST IN STATE SPACE: ARE PREFERENCES STABLE?*

Lost in Object Space

The functionality in object-oriented programs is fragmented in its objects. Composing the whole functionality of such a program out of the functionality of the objects is not a trivial task. Furthermore, the role that objects play during the execution is for many students unclear. Consequently many novice students suffer from the ”lost in object space” phenomenon. In this paper we present an en...

Lost in space.

Executive summary: We scrutinized peer-reviewed literature, technical books, and key reports in order to detect any evidence for a differential ability between public and public lands to protect imperiled species in the United States. Limitations in data availability and/or in study scale limited our comparison mostly to certain contrasts of federal public versus mostly private lands. At a nati...

How Stable Are Human Aesthetic Preferences Across the Lifespan?

How stable are human aesthetic preferences, and how does stability change over the lifespan? Here we investigate the stability of aesthetic taste in a cross-sectional study. We employed a simple rank-order preference task using paintings and photographs of faces and landscapes. In each of the four stimulus classes, we find that aesthetic stability generally follows an inverted U-shaped function...

Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space : a Corrigendum

Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini (2001) (henceforth DLR) axiomatically characterized three representations of preferences that allow for a desire for flexibility and/or commitment. In one of these representations (ordinal expected utility), the independence axiom is stated in a weaker form than is necessary to obtain the representation; in another (additive expected utility), the continuity axiom i...

Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space: Corrigendum1