When I talked with a personality researcher Colin Deyoung he said he thought of economic preferences as also personality traits. Like mini personality traits if it's say for a very specific preference (ice cream over cookies) to larger personality traits like risk or time preferences. Do you think this is a helpful way to think about preferences? They don't just sit there and exist to be drawn when needed, they are flexible when needed but with some stability.
When I talked with a personality researcher Colin Deyoung he said he thought of economic preferences as also personality traits. Like mini personality traits if it's say for a very specific preference (ice cream over cookies) to larger personality traits like risk or time preferences. Do you think this is a helpful way to think about preferences? They don't just sit there and exist to be drawn when needed, they are flexible when needed but with some stability.
Preferences might not just be personality traits but little personalities themselves, choices-as-choosers type stuff: https://interestingessays.substack.com/p/choices-as-choosers-choice-as-a-construction