According to the adaptive rationality standard, individuals:
A)are irrational if they choose to have preferences that are not self-interested.
B)always behave according to their own narrow self-interest.
C)are unable to choose what kind of preferences to have.
D)might rationally choose to have preferences that are not self-interested.

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The adaptive rationality standard regards goals as objects of choice, and the choice about which goals to have must be made efficiently. Thus, people might choose to have unselfish preferences if doing so is in their own self-interest.

According to the Adaptive Rationality Standard, Individuals