# What's something you have a Pavlovian reaction to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071 "2014-10-21T20:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/41 "2014-10-24T01:02:14Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > They would almost have to, given that [the source text](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time) is roughly 9 million pages long. 😛 [The All-England Summarise Proust Competition.](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/proust.php) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/42 "2014-10-24T01:36:02Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > [The All-England Summarise Proust Competition.](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/proust.php) Hah, the whoosh is upon (over?) me. :o ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/43 "2014-10-24T02:11:26Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Apologizing to a woman gives me a boner. (Or the beginnings of one anyway.) > > That’s because when I was married, we basically did this on a weekly basis: Argue\>Aopologize\>Have sex. So did you start arguments sometimes just so you would have sex later? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/44 "2014-10-24T09:33:02Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > This one’s probably common: > > Driving home from wherever, tiny urge to pee. The closer I get to home, the greater the urge. By the time the garage door comes down and I close that car door, I’m thinking **Am I going to make it to the can**? The wife has this, too; it’s a good thing we have two bathrooms. I’m the same way. Regardless of how long the drive is, my bladder knows exactly how long it’ll take to get home. For me, a big turn-on is the smell of oil paints. Brings me back to happy days in art school. I haven’t done oils in years, but sometimes I just unscrew a few tubes and inhale. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/45 "2014-10-24T09:39:19Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s not my Pavlovian reaction, but I have to tell this. My roommate in college was taught about the Pavlovian reaction by a demonstration. The teacher had them eat a sour candy every time he said the word Pavlov. Eventually, the word Pavlov would make them salivate. > > I find that just remembering that story makes me salivate every time someone mentions Pavlov. I’m not sure what type of reaction that is. It’s not quite learned, I don’t think, as I was never taught. It’s just the memory of the story associated Pavlov with salivating. It’s kind of a second-hand response. Back before cat food cans had pull-tops, I opened them with an electric can-opener. So whenever I opened a can, the cat came running. Then they switched to pull-tab lids. Sometime later I got a kitten. The kitten never associated the can opener with food, but he saw the older cat respond to the can opener. Soon he did too. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/46 "2014-10-24T17:10:20Z")
Rain, or, rather, being rained ON. Don’t know why, but it acts on my mood faster than conscious awareness. I was tromping around on business through the falling snow, dressed warmly enough, everything was beautiful, almost deliriously cheerful mood (I like snow). Then abruptly my mood shifted, the cheer felt forced, phony; felt tired, disappointed, depressed, worried as if something bad were happening and me powerless to avoid it. THEN—as I was doing an internal WTF, contemplating this sudden mood-shift—I realized the falling snow was turning to slushy rain. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071/47 "2014-10-24T17:25:19Z")
> [@scootergirl](#): > > So did you start arguments sometimes just so you would have sex later? No, the arguments were real but sometimes we would fake apologize so we could have sex. And then as soon as we were done, we’d go right back to arguing about that thing we just apologized for. Looking back, it’s actually kind of funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-something-you-have-a-pavlovian-reaction-to/702071.md?page=2)