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adaptive preferences: a standalone construct

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adaptivepreferences1 CONSTRUCTAdaptive preferencesELSTER · DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

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preferences that people shape to fit what is available to them, so that they come to want less when their options are limited.

In development studies, adaptive preferences refers to preferences that people shape to fit what is available to them, so that they come to want less when their options are limited. This meaning comes from Elster (1983) in Sour Grapes.[1]

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  1. Elster, J. (1983). Sour Grapes. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139171694

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