{"id":3377,"date":"2019-03-11T02:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2019-03-11T02:34:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:34:38","slug":"mere-association-tendency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/mere-association-tendency\/","title":{"rendered":"Mere association tendency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our brain likes to take shortcuts. It is programmed to take quick decisions. That has been a reason we call it monkey mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many times did you buy ice cream or soap or soda because your favorite superstar was selling it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Go out and check the signboards people selling sugar associate it with Happiness.<\/li><li>Cesarean section is advertised as pain-free delivery. <\/li><li>Alcohol is sold association company of friends. <\/li><li>A credit card is sold as freedom.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mere association tendency is not limited to humans. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_conditioning\">Russian psychologist Pavlov conducted an experiment on a dog.<\/a> In the experiment, he rang a bell before feeding the dog. He repeated the same for some time and noticed ringing the bell alone resulted in dog secreting more saliva. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoicdoodler.com\/influence-from-mere-association-tendency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoicdoodler.com\/influence-from-mere-association-tendency\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoicdoodler.com\/influence-from-mere-association-tendency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Influence-from-mere-association-tendency-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3380\" width=\"768\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Influence-from-mere-association-tendency-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Influence-from-mere-association-tendency-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Influence-from-mere-association-tendency-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Influence-from-mere-association-tendency-1568x306.png 1568w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Influence-from-mere-association-tendency.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brain likes to take shortcuts. It is programmed to take quick decisions. That has been a reason we call it monkey mind. How many times did you buy ice cream or soap or soda because your favorite superstar was selling it? Go out and check the signboards people selling sugar associate it with Happiness. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/mere-association-tendency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mere association tendency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}