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Stuff You Should Know

How Reverse Psychology Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

You have very likely used reverse psychology before, trying to persuade someone to do something you want by suggesting they do the opposite. What's behind the bizarre reaction this elicits?

Transcript

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0:14.0

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0:16.4

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0:17.7

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0:31.0

Welcome to Steffi Shed No from Houseuffworks.com.

0:40.8

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.4

I'm Josh Clark.

0:43.4

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

0:45.4

This is Steffi Shed No.

0:49.7

I'm a little grumpy about the topic and I'm just going to go ahead and throw that out

0:52.4

there.

0:53.4

It's pretty thin.

0:55.2

Well not only is it thin but just the older I've gotten man, we're talking about reverse

1:04.7

psychology and I see it's used with like kids sometimes and stuff.

1:09.9

But then when it gets to like relationships and through professional relationships and

1:14.0

business, yeah.

1:15.0

It all feels like manipulative games and the older I've gotten the more I just have

1:22.9

no time for that garbage.

1:25.3

And I'm just like be honest, even if things don't turn out well, at least you were honest

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