If I gave you an ice cream (or chocolate, or cake, or any other treat that you really like) with one hand and made a fist with the other hand and drew it back as if to hit you and the next few times you were handed a treat, the same thing happened, what would happen the next time you were handed an ice cream (or the treat of your choice) but this time there was no fist?  You would feel anxious, maybe afraid.

Yet the ice cream (or treat) is not scary, it's just that the ice cream has been ...


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