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Subject: Pavlovian: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Dec. 8, 2014

Pavlovian \pav-loh-vee-uhn, -law-, -lov-ee-\ adjective 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Pavlov or his work, especially of experiments in which he elicited predictable responses from laboratory animals. Quotes They are like those “assorted” cookies that differ from one another only in shape and shade, whereby their shrewd makers ensnare the salivating consumer in a mad Pavlovian world where, at no extra cost, variations in simple visual values influence and gradually replace flavor, which thus goes the way of talent and truth. -- Vladimir Nabokov, "Lance," The New Yorker, February 2, 1952 Origin Pavlovian entered English in the 1920s as a term for followers of the work of the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov.

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