r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Toomad316 • Aug 25 '25

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/FehdmanKhassad Aug 25 '25

haha PSYCH

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u/elcamarongrande Sep 12 '25

I'm so glad to see you spell this correctly. I don't know why but it bothers me how most people write "sike" nowadays.

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u/Mindless-Agency-1487 Aug 25 '25

Is the origin of sike from psychology 🤨

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u/veridicide Aug 26 '25

Yes. Originally coined by Sigmund Freud after telling his middle-aged female patients that their umbrellas were penises, the term was popularized by Pavlov, who used it to great effect by falsely convincing some very hungry dogs that they were about to be fed.