At 03:19 PM 10/30/2005, you wrote:
Michael Palij wrote:
The Sauce Bernaise Syndromen [as opposed to the Garcia effect] is the
tendency to associate the most novel gustatory stimulus (the sauce
bernaise) with the sickness, rather than with the actual cause of the sickness.
Although I have heard this distinction made, Seligman doesn't make it
in this article. He actually uses the Garcia effect as "the" explanation.
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I like the distinction, but I do not know its source. Does anyone have a
citation?
Thanks,
Bill Scott
This could be an example of my own constructive processes.....
In 1972 I was 14 - and though I like to think of myself as precocious, I
wasn't reading Psych Today, much less professional-level psych texts.....
I was exposed to the Seligman articles years later - by which time I
already had a good handle on the whole phenomenon. Seligman's sauce
bernaise story (as far as my memory goes) emphasizes the novelty aspect -
i.e., that he became conditioned to the unusual stimulus even though it was
not the cause of the illness. Ever since, I have assumed that the label
"sauce bernaise effect" referred to the novelty dimension, not to the
Garcia effect.
I doubt there is much official literature on this and probably no official
citation - I have always considered "sauce bernaise effect" as a
non-technical name given to make a phenomenon more approachable. Does it
even occur in the literature anywhere else?
-- Jim
P.S. Curiously, I just did a google on "sauce bernaise effect" - The first
hit was to the answer key of an exam given by Daryl Bem.....
When googling on "syndrome" rather than "effect" there were a few
additional hits - including the following whgich equates it with taste
aversion in general but hints at the novelty effect...
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Sauce_bernaise_syndrome
The following reference is curious partly for its misinformation....
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1309707
Here is a discussion of the "samosa syndrome" - a related syndrome
experienced by those travelling to India...
:)
http://www.indiamike.com/india/archive/index.php/t-2550.html
(Gotta love Google....)
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