The status of evaluative conditioning (EC) as a distinct form of associative learning was called in question by Field and Davey (1997, 1998, 1999), who argued that in the typical visual EC paradigm, nonassociative visual concept learning is responsible for the evaluative changes observed.
Using the framework of Kirshner and Guyatt (1985), it is intended as a descriptive measurement (to determine incidence and severity of side effects), as well as evaluative (to examine changes in side effects due to dexamethasone between cycles of chemotherapy).
Importantly, Gawronski and Bodenhausen argue that a simple negation of existing propositions will not result in changes in evaluative associations (see Gawronski and Bodenhausen 2006 for a detailed description of how implicit and explicit attitudes may change).
In future research, the OKI-DO observational method can be used as an evaluative tool to measure changes in the diabetes-specific interaction patterns across time, e.g., as a result of interventions based on the outcomes of this study.
(2004) suggest that therapy may lead to changes in evaluative self-organisation, but it is also possible that therapy may help individuals to have a clearer and more consistent conception of themselves.
More socially evaluative tasks eliciting more robust changes in cortisol may be required to adequately assess this relationship.
A recent longitudinal study with junior athletes (Madigan, Stoeber, & Passfield, 2015) found perfectionism to predict changes in athlete burnout: evaluative concerns perfectionism predicted increases in burnout over a 3-month period, whereas personal standards perfectionism predicted decreases.
Longitudinal studies should clarify the potential of the GFI as an evaluative measurement instrument to assess the changes in frailty status over time.
Changes in the number of evaluative functions performed during a simulated interview were chosen as a dependant variable.
For an evaluative instrument, responsiveness (as indicated by sensitivity to detect changes in patients who have improved or deteriorated) is also essential.
