The human action repertoire encompasses a wide range of behaviors. From a goal-centered perspective, these behaviors can be categorized into two complementary types of actions: production and prevention actions. While research on action control has traditionally focused on production actions, integrating prevention actions into existing theories is essential, as the two differ fundamentally in their goal structures: Production actions aim at the occurrence (i.e., presence) of observable events, whereas prevention actions aim at the non-occurrence (i.e., absence) of such events. This distinction raises the question of how mechanistic theories of action control can accommodate cognitive representations of prevention actions. In previous studies, I showed that, despite their structural differences, these action types are represented in surprisingly similar ways. Here, I aim to build on these findings and suggest that prevention actions can thus serve as a novel tool to address core questions in the field. I will present an experiment that tests whether qualitative information about a relation becomes integrated into the respective linkage. Based on these results, I will demonstrate how prevention actions can contribute to ongoing debates about associative and propositional mechanisms in ideomotor paradigms and binding.