Why does reverse psychology work?
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I’ll give my take… if my mother (back in the day) told me i needed to do something i’d feel compelled to do the opposite to prove that I’m my own person and can make my own damn decisions. Is that a healthy response?? Absolutely not. But the need to rebel and be an individual is innate in most people and will work in certain cases. It doesn’t work in cases where the obvious choice being presented is correct or wrong and doesn’t work on most responsible adults that dont have insecurities. I use it on my daughter sometimes to varying degrees of success but it only works on her because at the age of 8 she thinks she knows everything.
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