This paper studies strict preference relations on product sets induced by “ordinal aggregation methods”. Such methods are interpreted here as performing paired comparisons of alternatives based on the “importance” of attributes favoring each element of the pair: alternative x will be preferred to alternative y if the attributes for which x is better than y are “more important” than the attribut...

Abstract Alliance is a robust contributor to the outcome of adult, youth, and family therapy, but little known about therapists’ contributions alliance in conjoint treatment. We investigated predictive value personality, clinical experience observed building behaviors for mid-treatment as reported by therapists members. Participants were 77 parents 21 youth from 57 families receiving home-based...