Tag: Reactance

Reverse Psychology: CPTSD, Intermittent Reinforcement, Reactance, Strategic Self-anticonformity

The speaker explains reverse psychology and its connection to complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), arguing that CPTSD often produces Cluster B personality traits like narcissism, emotional dysregulation, and self-destructiveness due to intermittent reinforcement and splitting. Reverse psychology is described as deliberate deception and manipulation using techniques such as mirroring, tough love, provocation, pseudo-humility, inconsistency, nagging, denigration, scarcity, and paradoxical interventions to induce reactance and achieve desired behaviors. The speaker notes applications in therapy and social engineering, warns that reverse psychology targets reactant or Cluster B individuals most effectively, and highlights ethical concerns about deception in influence tactics. Reverse Psychology: CPTSD, Intermittent Reinforcement, Reactance, Strategic Self-anticonformity

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