What Is Reverse Psychology?
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What Is Reverse Psychology?
I often feel human beings are strange animals, maybe like many other animals.
Just like when my mother kept on telling me not to eat too much rubbish foods or soft drinks, when mum said that, the more she told me to eat less, the more desire I have.
It is like you having a dog, now, you tell your dog, you say: “Do not be naughty. Do not bark.” But sometimes, maybe the more you tell your dog not to be naughty, the more naughty he becomes.
And my mother will use horrifying words to scare me, saying that you go to end up in the hospital if you eat too much junk food or soft drink, and in the beginning, I feel scared, but later on, I cannot control myself and I said to her: “I cannot help it. And perhaps, the more you tell me not to eat, the more desire I have.”
Perhaps, maybe if she does not want me to eat too much junk food, she should say it the opposite. Maybe she should say: “Oh, why don’t you eat more junk food. That is healthy for you.”
Is she says that, maybe I will eat less. This is reverse psychology.
Just like a married woman kept on telling her husband not to have an affair with another woman, the more restriction she wants to give to her husband, maybe the more desire that her husband wants to have an affair.
But if she says: “Oh, it is not bad thing to do to have an affair.”
Then, maybe the husband will love his wife a bit more.
So, maybe this is reverse psychology.
Don’t you think so?
Isn’t human strange animal, just like other animal?
So this is why I often feel that those people who harshly judge others, not only they are not stopping them, but maybe they are promoting it even further, whether is drugs, alcohol, sex or whatever, that I feel humans are strange animals.
Do you agree?
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Many husbands would interpret that as permission for them to pursue affairs themselves. At best such a manipulation would more often just undermine trust.Stanley Huang wrote: ↑September 25th, 2012, 6:46 amBut if she says: “Oh, it is not bad thing to do to have an affair.”
Then, maybe the husband will love his wife a bit more.
So, maybe this is reverse psychology.
Don’t you think so?
Isn’t human strange animal, just like other animal?
So this is why I often feel that those people who harshly judge others, not only they are not stopping them, but maybe they are promoting it even further, whether is drugs, alcohol, sex or whatever, that I feel humans are strange animals.
Do you agree?
Reverse psychology is a tool and, like any tool, there are optimal and suboptimal applications.
Humans and other animals are more similar than most people care to admit because we tend to not notice our own automatic behaviours. It's possible to behave in a highly automated way and yet feel deeply.
Harsh judgement tends to be either competitiveness or fear of the consequences (often of of norm transgression).
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Not really.
It's taking a false and extreme stance to make another react in a way that you desire.
A parent wishing their child to NOT take drugs, pretends to take drugs themselves and tell their child that drugs are "really kewl man!!". The child wishing to take a different stance from their parent decides to never take drugs since it is "so 20th century".
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Not really.ThomasHobbes wrote: ↑September 20th, 2018, 3:40 amNot really.
It's taking a false and extreme stance to make another react in a way that you desire.
A parent wishing their child to NOT take drugs, pretends to take drugs themselves and tell their child that drugs are "really kewl man!!". The child wishing to take a different stance from their parent decides to never take drugs since it is "so 20th century".
There is a reason that folks smoked dope in the 60's, snorted cocaine in the 80's, used Meth in the 00's, and narcotics currently. The rejection of parental drug use isn't to not use drugs, it is to use harder core drugs.
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Maybe they did not use reverse psychology, or maybe it does not work?LuckyR wrote: ↑September 21st, 2018, 11:29 amNot really.ThomasHobbes wrote: ↑September 20th, 2018, 3:40 am
Not really.
It's taking a false and extreme stance to make another react in a way that you desire.
A parent wishing their child to NOT take drugs, pretends to take drugs themselves and tell their child that drugs are "really kewl man!!". The child wishing to take a different stance from their parent decides to never take drugs since it is "so 20th century".
There is a reason that folks smoked dope in the 60's, snorted cocaine in the 80's, used Meth in the 00's, and narcotics currently. The rejection of parental drug use isn't to not use drugs, it is to use harder core drugs.
I was not making a point about drug taking but giving an example of reverse psychology.
But since you brought it up I do not think people are taking more drugs now, nor are the drugs that are taken are any harder.
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First of all you'd need to show that the later harder drugs were used by the children of people taking less hard ones. Meth for example tends to be used by a very different demographic than cocaine and the dope. But really reverse psychology does not work on everyone, but it can work on people who tend to rebel or do the opposite. And this certainly can work. It doesn't make sense to tell people to do things (that you don't want them to do) if they tend to listen and do what you tell them too.LuckyR wrote: ↑September 21st, 2018, 11:29 amNot really.ThomasHobbes wrote: ↑September 20th, 2018, 3:40 am
Not really.
It's taking a false and extreme stance to make another react in a way that you desire.
A parent wishing their child to NOT take drugs, pretends to take drugs themselves and tell their child that drugs are "really kewl man!!". The child wishing to take a different stance from their parent decides to never take drugs since it is "so 20th century".
There is a reason that folks smoked dope in the 60's, snorted cocaine in the 80's, used Meth in the 00's, and narcotics currently. The rejection of parental drug use isn't to not use drugs, it is to use harder core drugs.
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You are free to "think" whatever you want. However US drug deaths have doubled in the last decade and gone from about 17,000 to 72,000 in less than two decades (1999 to 2017)ThomasHobbes wrote: ↑September 21st, 2018, 12:38 pmMaybe they did not use reverse psychology, or maybe it does not work?
I was not making a point about drug taking but giving an example of reverse psychology.
But since you brought it up I do not think people are taking more drugs now, nor are the drugs that are taken are any harder.
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Don't get me wrong. Reverse psychology (like regular pop psychology) is an influencer but far from a dictator of decision making. Thus it can be best appreciated when looking at large group trends over long periods of time (not individuals).Karpel Tunnel wrote: ↑September 21st, 2018, 4:27 pmFirst of all you'd need to show that the later harder drugs were used by the children of people taking less hard ones. Meth for example tends to be used by a very different demographic than cocaine and the dope. But really reverse psychology does not work on everyone, but it can work on people who tend to rebel or do the opposite. And this certainly can work. It doesn't make sense to tell people to do things (that you don't want them to do) if they tend to listen and do what you tell them too.
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