10/14/2016
Have you ever had an experience where you ate a food while you were sick and then you never wanted to eat that food ever again? This stems from a psychological phenomenon known as the Garcia Effect.
The Garcia Effect, also known as taste aversion, is a distaste for particular smells and tastes that were originally associated with negative reactions, such as nausea, vomiting, or general sickness.
The Garcia Effect is also an example of classical conditioning. The behavior of not wanting to ever eat/smell that food again is a learned, conditioned behavior operating as a single, forward long-delay pairing.
