This paper is a joint work with Anna Jenčová.Effect algebras have been introduced by Foulis and Bennett [2] (see also [3,4] for equivalent definitions) for modeling unsharp measurements in quantum mechanical systems [5]. They are a generalization of many structures which arise in the axiomatization of quantum mechanics (Hilbert space effects [7]), noncommutative measure theory and probability (orthomodular lattices and posets, [6]), fuzzy measure theory and many-valued logic 9]).A state, as an analogue of a probability measure, is a basic notion in algebraic structures used in the quantum theories (see e.g., [8]), and properties of states have been deeply studied by many authors.In MV-algebras, states as averaging the truth value were first studied in [11]. In the last few years, the notion of a state has been studied by many experts in MV-algebras, e.g, [13,12].Another approach to the state theory on MV-algebras has been presented recently in [15]. Namely, a new unary operator was added to the MV-algebras structure as an internal state (or so-called state operator). MV-algebras with the added state operator are called state MValgebras. The idea is that an internal state has some properties reminiscent of states, but, while a state is a map from an MV-algebra into [0, 1], an internal state is an operator of the algebra. State MV-algebras generalize, for example, Hájek's approach [14] to fuzzy logic with modality P r (interpreted as probably with the following semantic interpretation: The probability of an event a is presented as the truth value of P r(a). For a more detailed motivation of state MV-algebras and their relation to logic, see [15].In [1], the notion of a state operator was extended from MV-algebras to the more general frame of effect algebras. A state operator is there defined as an additive, unital and idempotent operator on E. A state operator on E is called strong, if it satisfies the additional condition(1)Since MV-algebras form a special subclass of effect algebras, so-called MV-effect algebras, it was shown that the definition of a state operator on effect algebras coincides with the original definition on MV-algebras if and only if the state operator is strong. Moreover, if τ is faithful, i.e., τ (a) = 0 implies a = 0, then property (1) is automatically satisfied.In the present paper, we show that state operators on an effect algebra E are related with states on E in the following way: (1) every state on E induces a state operator on the tensor product [0, 1] ⊗ E. (2) If E admits an ordering set of states, then every state operator on E induces a state on E. We study state operators mainly on convex effect algebras. Convex effect algebras as effect algebras with an additional convexity structure were introduced and studied in [17,16]. It was proved in [17], that every convex effect algebra is isomorphic with the interval [0, u] in an ordered real linear space (V, V + ), where u is an order unit. Moreover, (V, u) is an order unit space, i.e. u is an archimedean order unit, if and only if E ad...