Answer to Question #260221 in English for Hammad Latif

Question

What experiences have you had with psychological reactance? How have you reacted when

faced with real or perceived limitation(s) on your freedom? Describe the limitations, and your

behaviour as a resul

Answer 1

Psychological reactance is "an unpleasant motivational arousal that emerges when people experience a threat to or loss of their free behaviors." An example of such behavior can be observed when an individual engages in a prohibited activity in order to deliberately taunt the authority who prohibits it. The fear of loss of further freedoms can spark this arousal and motivate them to re-establish the threatened freedom. Because this motivational state is a result of the perceived reduction of one's freedom of action, it is considered a counter-force, and thus is called "psychological reactance