2025/08/01 by Olivier Corneille, Anne Gast, Peter Lush +1 · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Health Professions · Mathematics · #Advanced Causal Inference Techniques #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/spc3.70080
openalex publication_date 2025/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
ABSTRACT Attitude research has long been concerned with the potential influence of demand characteristics in evaluative conditioning effects. Here, we argue that this concern remains justified and cannot be readily dismissed. This is supported by two observations. First, strategies used to rule out a demand account of evaluative conditioning effects have, if anything, supported rather than rejected it. Second, as we illustrate by discussing three recent studies that revisited this question, this investigation is empirically challenging. In the general discussion, we argue that a better understanding of demand effects can advance theorization and practice, and we discuss criteria that may help delineate demand from propositional and memory accounts of evaluative conditioning.