On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:08:04 -0700, Lavin, Michael wrote: >Garcia's taste aversion came out of his research with the military >using x-irradition and not an accident.The findings were not accidental >"Sauce bearnaise phenomenon" was a term generated by Garcia and >Revusky (1971). and had noting to do with Seligman. Mike Lavin
I haven't read (or at least I don't remember reading) Garcia and Revusky (1971) but I do have a pretty clear memory of reading an article in "Psychology Today" as an undergrad (ca. 1972) that had "sauce bernaise syndrome" in its title. I forgot who the author(s) were of this article but assumed the Garcia may have been the author or one of the authors. The current thread has prompted to to track down this article. It turns out that this is the article I and perhaps others had read: Seligman, M. E. P., & Hager, J. L. (Aug, 1972). Biological boundaries of learning: The sauce-bernaise syndrome. Psychology Today, pp. 59-61, 84-87. I had hoped to locate an electronic copy of this article quickly but the online databases that I have access to only have "Psychology Today" only going as far back as the late 1980s. Curiously, this article has been reprinted in a new book of readings in in evolutionary psychology: The Functional Mind: Readings in Evolutionary Psychology Douglas T. Kenrick, Arizona State University Carol L. Luce, Arizona State University ISBN: 0-205-34409-7 Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Copyright: 2004 Format: Paper; 336 pp The table of contents is viewable at: http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0205344097-TOC,00.html So, even though I really need to read the Seligman and Hagar article again to be clear on details, I think that this does establish a link between Seligman and the phrase "sauce bernaise syndrome" (my recollection is that one of the authors describes eating steak and getting a stomach flu hours later which put him off of sauce bernaise for the forseeable [if it was Seligman, it would be interesting to see if he still avoids sauce bernaise] -- I don't recall there being an attribution of this event to Garcia though the vaagaries of memory may have made such info inaccessible or unavailable). -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 10/29/2005 5:13 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: Accidental discoveries Actually, it might have been Martin Seligman, which is why this was sometimes called the "sauce bearnaise phenomenon" Claudia Stanny -----Original Message----- From: Don Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 10/29/2005 10:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Cc: Subject: Re: Accidental discoveries Garcia's taste aversion learning may be another. I heard that he got the idea after getting sick following a restaurant meal. -Don. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
