A Recurring Capture Pattern in Evaluability-Dependent Institutional Systems: Why evaluation converges toward observable outcomes rather than value amplification processes

In many institutional systems, evaluation tends to concentrate on outcomes that are immediately observable and attributable, rather than on the underlying processes through which value is generated and amplified. This paper documents a Recurring Capture Pattern (RCP) observed in evaluability-dependent institutional systems. Under the institutional condition of evaluation and reward allocation structures designed around constraints of observability and outcome attribution, individually rational behavior systematically converges not toward the activation of reference-circulatory value amplification processes but toward the concentration of evaluation on observable final outcomes and the reinforcement of exclusivity-based control structures. As these behaviors accumulate, they render intermediate contributions and reference circulation increasingly invisible, resulting in the structural fixation of outcome-centered evaluation systems and reinforcing the same behavioral convergence through a recursive institutional feedback loop. The pattern ultimately produces the suppression of reference-based value amplification processes and the institutional invisibilization of intermediate contributions, indicating a structural misalignment between institutional objectives and rational behavioral adaptation. This paper analytically describes the structural relationship between institutional design and rational behavioral adaptation.