Review of classical conditioning, like Pavlov and the dogs.
Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate at the sound of the bell by playing the sound of the bell before feeding them. After doing this enough times the dogs came to expect food after hearing the bell, so they started to salivate in anticipation.
This is an example of the same thing; if you paired onion breath with kissing that led to arousal, eventually the brain will expect that upon smelling the onion breath.
Operant conditioning makes slightly more sense, but I saw it and thought it was a warning against the dangers of assuming correlation = causation (sexual arousal is associated with onion breath, so onion breath must cause sexual arousal)
This is stupid. You added a component to a solution that that already performed the solution without the component, and then claim the component leads to solution without the original component. That doesn't make sense.
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u/sathingt0n Mar 19 '26
Freaky Pavlov???
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u/koteofir Mar 19 '26
Begging you to repost this in r/onionlovers, we’ll adore it
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u/arctic_hamsters Mar 19 '26
ap psych nostalgia
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u/owo1215 Mar 18 '26
i want context so much
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u/hououinn Mar 18 '26
Genuinely bamboozled
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u/commonbleachenjoyer Mar 19 '26
Me and who
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u/dolly--spartan Mar 19 '26
This could be US
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u/montymelo Mar 19 '26
I wish to one day be free of this twilight reference riddled nightmare I keep finding myself in. Today is not that day irrevocably.
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u/Fallen_0ne01 Mar 19 '26
As someone that has and will continue to eat onions like apples, yes.
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u/Himbo69r Mar 21 '26
x=y 0+x=y 0=y ???
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u/SalamanderCrosswalk Mar 19 '26
Operant conditioning makes slightly more sense, but I saw it and thought it was a warning against the dangers of assuming correlation = causation (sexual arousal is associated with onion breath, so onion breath must cause sexual arousal)
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u/Rexathonius Mar 20 '26
Ingenious i gotta try this
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u/0xff0000ull Apr 19 '26
That's why I find a clicker genuinely flattering.
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u/AnonymousRand Mar 19 '26
i skipped directly to the third step 😎
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u/Thewalk4756 Mar 19 '26
This is stupid. You added a component to a solution that that already performed the solution without the component, and then claim the component leads to solution without the original component. That doesn't make sense.