Psychology and ELT - Psychological Reactance

Описание: How do you get people to eat potatoes? How to you discourage Muslim women from wearing the veil? And how can we drastically reduce the use of SUVs? In his inimitable style, Rory Sutherland gives us the answers to all three questions, highlighting in the process a very interesting phenomenon: psychological reactance. Quite simply, we don't like being told what to do and we instinctively fight against any attempts to coerce or manipulate us -- even when people are actually trying to do what is best for us! Parents of course know this better than anybody else, but teachers could also write whole books on the phenomenon! :-) The Q is: how do we overcome this?

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