pavlovian

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The Democratic faction uses appeals for "justice" and "equality", for tax breaks for workers even though most workers don't "pay" enough taxes to make the breaks more than pavlovian whistles.

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  1. Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov, or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated; as, a Pavlovian response.

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  1. of or relating to Ivan Pavlov or his experiments

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  • And again this will require more than the pavlovian and irresponsible pro-Israel rants that are being heard from many quarters today. —  TPMCafe
  • That pavlovian "conspiracy" word Do you really think you can just shut down your ... collapse
  • LeDoux JE (2000) Memory consolidation of auditory pavlovian fear conditioning requires protein synthesis and protein kinase A in the amygdala. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • We rattle off as if with pavlovian precision all the pleasant half-truths about how beautiful and not at all disturbing Islam is in all its many variants except, of course, for them there 'Radicals' - you know, the sort that threaten our dubious pieties. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • That the oxytocin her body generates during sex will help him to create a pavlovian response that becomes a subtle addiction to playing video games of the type he likes. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
 

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