The theme of limited resources pervades the mental health landscape. Practitioners often lack adequate resources to provide interventions for all who could benefit from them, and potential beneficiaries often lack adequate cognitive, financial, and temporal resources to make use of them. Even under rare conditions of bounty, many intensive interventions show small, fleeting effects. Such a landscape begs a space for behavioral nudges: cheap, easily implementable tweaks to people's decision environments aimed at improving health while preserving autonomy. Although existing nudges can be effective, they have their own limitations. Here we explore the case for Evaluative Conditioning (EC) as a largely overlooked yet potentially effective kind of behavioral nudge that can reap nudges' benefits while addressing some of their limitations.

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评价性条件反射作为直觉来源及其行为推动的潜力


资源有限的主题弥漫在心理健康领域。从业者通常缺乏足够的资源来为所有可能从中受益的人提供干预措施，而潜在的受益人往往缺乏足够的认知、财务和时间资源来利用它们。即使在罕见的赏金条件下，许多密集的干预也显示出微小的、转瞬即逝的效果。这样的景观为行为助推提供了空间：对人们的决策环境进行廉价、易于实施的调整，旨在改善健康，同时保持自主性。尽管现有的助推可能有效，但它们也有其自身的局限性。在这里，我们探讨了评价条件反射 （EC） 作为一种在很大程度上被忽视但可能有效的行为助推的案例，它可以在解决其一些局限性的同时获得助推的好处。