Of all the “under the hood” components of Mac OS X, my personal favorite is preferences files. Why? For starters, they are important. They potentially affect every application you use, from the Finder ...

Preferences about health care—including risk aversion, openness to experimental treatments, and whether to leave treatment decisions to a doctor—vary substantially by age and sex among adults 50 and ...

It’s college application season. For high school seniors, it’s a time filled with drama. But this year, elite universities face a drama of their own. While colleges try to regroup from the loss of a ...

New research by Driebe et al. (2023) published last week in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that some of our preferences for ideal partners change over time while ...

A preferences file is, almost by definition, any file that stores the preferences settings for some software. In Mac OS X, most user-modifiable preferences settings are stored in .plist files in the ~ ...