Sean ate chili one night for dinner. Later that night, he came down with the flu and was sick to his stomach. Now Sean cannot even tolerate the smell of chili. What phenomenon accounts for Sean's reaction to chili?

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Sean's reaction to chili is an example of learned taste aversion, where an individual associates the taste of a certain food with an unpleasant symptom (in this case, sickness from the flu), leading to a long-lasting aversion to that food.

Sean Ate Chili One Night for Dinner