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  2. DoSomething - Wikipedia

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    2006 - Jordan Schwartz age 12, receives a Do Something Brick Award as founder and artistic producer of The Children's Bilingual Theater which is committed to bridging the language and cultural gaps in our community through the theater and arts and is dedicated to giving a diverse group of young people the theater experience while offering the ...

  3. Choice-supportive bias - Wikipedia

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    However, choices which are made on a person's behalf in their best interest do show a tendency for choice-supportive memory bias. Random selection: People do not show choice-supportive biases when choices are made randomly for them. [12] This is because choice-supportive memory bias tends to arise during the act of making the decision.

  4. Something Better to Do - Wikipedia

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    "Something Better to Do" is a song written by John Farrar and recorded by Olivia Newton-John. The song was released in September 1975 as the lead single from Newton-John's sixth studio album, Clearly Love. The narrator of the song muses that she's having a hard time adjusting to life without her departed lover; even the birds are wasting their ...

  5. Preference - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, economics and philosophy, preference is a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives.For example, someone prefers A over B if they would rather choose A than B. Preferences are central to decision theory because of this relation to behavior.

  6. Preference (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In order to have transitive preferences, a person, player, or agent that prefers choice option A to B and B to C must prefer A to C. The most discussed logical property of preferences are the following: A≽B ∧ B≽C → A≽C (transitivity of weak preference) A~B ∧ B~C → A~C (transitivity of indifference)

  7. Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, women prefer popular music more than men. [24] In a study of personality and gender in preference for exaggerated bass in music, researchers found that men demonstrated more of a preference for bassy music than women. This preference for bassy music is also correlated with antisocial and borderline personalities. [33]

  8. Conditioned place preference - Wikipedia

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    Conditioned place preference (CPP) is a form of Pavlovian conditioning used to measure the motivational effects of objects or experiences. [1] This motivation comes from the pleasurable aspect of the experience, so that the brain can be reminded of the context that surrounded the "encounter". [2]

  9. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Wikipedia

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    In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk, who after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, responding to any request with the words "I would prefer not to." The story likely takes place between 1848 and 1853, during the Antebellum period in American history.