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| - Plucky: "I'm the green duck with an ego the thize of Cleveland!"
- Fine, don't take our advice. It's really a stupid idea, but some characters will give warnings or orders with the expectation of being disobeyed, and will in fact count on this disobedience. Any character who is told not to go in the basement, stay away from the woods, get out now, etc. ... will do exactly the opposite, often playing right into the hands of the very person who told them what to do/not do. It's really best if you put it out of your mind, since this trope heavily relies on using the pride, perversity, or curiosity of someone else to manipulate them. I'm sure it would be both impossible and impractical to use this as a central tool in a Batman Gambit, especially when you need to make your pawns feel like they are making their own decisions. Sometimes this can overlap with Do
- This is not an article about reverse psychology, or ygolohcysp. Do not under any circumstances read on. Seriously, this predictable inaugural paragraph will appear to positively drip with comedic innovation compared to the rest of this (not article). In Mother Russia, reverse psychology can be normal speech if two wrongs (don’t?) make a right, barring double negatives. Or something.
- Reverse psychology was a psychological technique by which one person persuaded another to support their position on an issue by advocating its opposite. This was done in such a way as to make the other person see the flaws in the opposing view that they might not have seen had the person only advocated the benefits of their view.
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| - This is not an article about reverse psychology, or ygolohcysp. Do not under any circumstances read on. Seriously, this predictable inaugural paragraph will appear to positively drip with comedic innovation compared to the rest of this (not article). Eve would never have looked at that crappy fruit twice. Much like the cumquats at the back of the seventh aisle of Waitrose, it would have remained untouched, swamped by the bounty of exotic nonsense. Indeed, she would never have looked up from her herbal essences but for one thing: Reverse Psychology. God, sick of post graduate son Adam and girlfriend scrounging off his creation needed an excuse to kick the lazy buggers out. The ‘forbidden’ fruit (now commonly sold as ‘Prickly Pear’) seemed to fit the bill. And we all know what happened next. After the eviction, the pair moved into a bed-sit, and proceeded to passively collect pizza boxes and vacuum no more than once a year. The filthy animals. May all their base are not belong to us, and on their descendants. May I now remind you to continue to remember to remain focused on feeling tremendously elated about the fact that you may not under any circumstances think about the left knee of a camel. So stop thinking about it. Now. Under no circumstances, foreseen or unforeseen, allow a vivid and striking image of a camels left knee to drift into your mind. I said no! One of the best illustrations of effective use of reverse psychology, in the post biblical era, has been the past two conservative election campaigns. Note how the number of votes they receive has been diminishing in direct proportion to the intensity with which they request votes. Note also how their last election winning leader, John Major, did not in fact ask for votes at all. In fact, all he had to he had to do to beat Labour was keep his mouth shut... The use of weaponry can often increase the power of reverse psychology. For example, the next time you visit your local bank branch, hold a pistol up to the cashier and scream ‘this is not a hold up; do not put the cash in this sack’. This has been extensively field tested and is 104% Jonanon approved. So don’t try it! Similar method can be widely applied, e.g. to ask a woman not to remove her clothing or to ask the boss not to promote you instead of ‘Billy Boy’ (the prick). Use your imagination. In Mother Russia, reverse psychology can be normal speech if two wrongs (don’t?) make a right, barring double negatives. Or something. I would not like to thank you for navigating this stormy ocean of flowery language with nothing but the flimsy sail boat that is your meagre intelligence. Do not in any way feel free to embellish this article with pictures or witty comments. Don’t go back to the beginning and read this article again. Twice. Now. I warned you...
- Fine, don't take our advice. It's really a stupid idea, but some characters will give warnings or orders with the expectation of being disobeyed, and will in fact count on this disobedience. Any character who is told not to go in the basement, stay away from the woods, get out now, etc. ... will do exactly the opposite, often playing right into the hands of the very person who told them what to do/not do. It's really best if you put it out of your mind, since this trope heavily relies on using the pride, perversity, or curiosity of someone else to manipulate them. I'm sure it would be both impossible and impractical to use this as a central tool in a Batman Gambit, especially when you need to make your pawns feel like they are making their own decisions. Sometimes this can overlap with Do Not Do This Cool Thing, by making the forbidden attractive just because it is forbidden. Super-Trope to:
* Briar Patching
* Duck Season! Rabbit Season!
* Fence Painting
* Forbidden Fruit
* Schmuck Bait Is a Sub-Trope of Batman Gambit. Don't even bother seeing Too Dumb to Live and Genre Blindness. It's not worth comparing to Could Say It, But.... And do not, under any circumstances, take this trope to an extreme, as it may approach Mind Screw. Feel free to check out Reverse Psychology Backfire, though. You could see these examples, but I'm telling you it's a waste of time:
- Reverse psychology was a psychological technique by which one person persuaded another to support their position on an issue by advocating its opposite. This was done in such a way as to make the other person see the flaws in the opposing view that they might not have seen had the person only advocated the benefits of their view. In 2366, Data employed reverse psychology in an attempt to convince Gosheven, the leader of an illegal colony on Tau Cygna V, to evacuate due to the arrival of the planet's owners, the Sheliak. Data did so after previous attempts to simply use the merits of evacuation to persuade Gosheven failed. While he was able to persuade some colonists to leave, Gosheven did not change his mind. It took a demonstration of what the Sheliak might do to the colony to finally win Gosheven over. (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command" )
- Plucky: "I'm the green duck with an ego the thize of Cleveland!"
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