1. Make an LJ-cut post with "DO NOT READ" as the text.
2. Do not select a 'mood' for this post.
3. If anyone clicks the cut, they are to comment and admit to doing so.
4. Anyone who reads this also has to do the same in THEIR journal, thus continuing the neverending madness.
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Date: 2008-10-14 06:19 am (UTC)well, I could explain...
its called Reactance - - -
thats what wiki says about it:
Reactance is an emotional reaction in direct contradiction to rules or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. It can occur when someone is heavily pressured to accept a certain view or attitude. Reactance can cause the person to adopt or strengthen a view or attitude that is contrary to what was intended and also increases resistance to persuasion. Mild examples are a boy being all the more interested in a girl playing "hard to get", or teenagers drinking to excess in an environment of prohibition when they would not do so in a less restrictive culture. People using "reverse psychology" are playing on at least an informal awareness of reactance, attempting to influence someone to choose the opposite of what they request. This is a frequent method used in fraudulent or unethical sales pitches, manipulating a consumer into choosing an option they would not necessarily have chosen logically.
thank god - my psychology-master was good for something ;)
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Date: 2008-10-14 06:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-14 07:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-14 08:02 am (UTC)that's cute, I haven't thought that someone would turn it into an LJ game.
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Date: 2008-10-14 12:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-14 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 10:22 pm (UTC)