Two experiments investigated an evaluative transfer from actions producing pleasant and unpleasant outcomes to novel stimuli that were assigned to those actions in a subsequent stimulus-response task. Results showed that a fictitious social group was liked more when this group was assigned to the action previously associated with pleasant outcomes relative to the other action. This evaluative transfer from operant contingencies was observed although the actions did not generate outcomes during the stimulus-action pairing. It is concluded that operant contingencies can be used for preference construction because they specify the existence of a relation between specific actions and particular valenced events. Implications for mental process theories of preference formation and motivated perception are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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操作性评估条件。

两项实验研究了从产生愉快和不愉快结果的动作到新的刺激的评估转移，这些刺激在后续的刺激响应任务中分配给这些动作。结果表明，将虚拟小组分配给先前与其他行动相比具有令人满意的结果的行动时，该小组更受欢迎。观察到了来自操作偶然性的这种评估转移，尽管在刺激与动作配对过程中动作并未产生结果。结论是，可操作性偶发事件可用于偏好构造，因为它们指定了特定动作和特定价态事件之间存在关系。讨论了心理过程理论对偏好形成和动机知觉的启示。