 Let us develop the intuitive idea of preference conditionalization in more detail. People may often—perhaps typically—defer full resolution of their preferences until they get more information about the preferences of others who are their current or potential team-mates. Stirling himself provides a simple (arguably too simple) example from  Keeney and Raiffa (1976),  in which a farmer forms a clear preference among different climate conditions for a land purchase only after, and partly in light of, learning the preferences of his wife. This little thought experiment is plausible, but not ideal as an illustration because it is easily conflated with vague notions we might entertain about fusion of agency in the ideal of marriage—and it is important to distinguish the dynamics of preference conditionalization in teams of distinct agents from the simple collapse of individual agency. So let us construct a better example. Imagine a corporate Chairperson consulting her risk-averse Board about whether they should pursue a dangerous hostile takeover bid. Compare two possible procedures she might use: in process (i) she sends each Board member an individual e-mail about the idea a week prior to the meeting; in process (ii) she springs it on them collectively at the meeting. Most people will agree that the two processes might yield different outcomes, and that a main reason for this is that on process (i), but not (ii), some members might entrench personal opinions that they would not have time to settle into if they received information about one another’s willingness to challenge the Chair in public at the same time as they heard the proposal for the first time. In both imagined processes there are, at the point of voting, sets of individual preferences to be aggregated by the vote. But it is more likely that some preferences in the set generated by the second process were conditional on preferences of others. A conditional preference as Stirling defines it is a preference that is influenced by information about the preferences of (specified) others.