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Pavlov's dog

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Classical conditioning experiment referenced as a metaphor for people responding to performative emotional validation language like drooling at a ringing bell.

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"Anyone who can't recognize they're being manipulated upon hearing these HR-approved shibboleths is a sucker of the highest order, or merely a narcissist drooling at the ringing bell of smug ingratiation like Pavlov's dog."
"I hear you, I see you, I believe you." · u/[deleted] · ↑77 · 2020-08-09
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