(marketing) The situation where a potential consumer looks for the best good or service in an unfamiliar, expensive, or infrequently-bought category, requiring a great deal of research.

plural of principal-agent problem

The problem that a person or entity serving as an agent for another, and able to make decisions on the other's behalf, may be motivated instead to make decisions that benefit themselves.

plural of kidnapped robot problem

The situation where an autonomous robot is carried somewhere and as a result has trouble in determining its own location.

Alternative form of first world problem

plural of First World problem

(psychology) The phenomenon of autistic and nonautistic people mutually failing to understand each other due to cognitive differences in expressing and processing emotion.

(mathematics) A problem in combinatorics, in which 15 schoolgirls go walking three abreast for seven days in succession, and must be arranged so that no two walk abreast more than once.

Synonym of starlight problem