Andy regularly usedreversepsychologyon people making them see the error of their ways.
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Nick's free-form teaching style often relied on running mock game shows on subjects, along with slyreversepsychologywhen it came to advice and discipline.
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This type of bluff may be employed as an attempt at usingreversepsychologyto steal the pot.
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If a prediction is made with this outcome specifically in mind, it is commonly referred to asreversepsychology.
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He knows how to persuade usingreversepsychologyor offering recruits exactly what they want directly using as few words as possible.
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Many construed the clip as an attempt atreversepsychology.
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They usereversepsychology, urging him not to produce it.
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He changes moods often, from mania to anger to nonchalance, and uses this as a form ofreversepsychology.
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Yustin, an old man, warns them not to dig (using sarcasm andreversepsychology).
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While a paradoxical intervention andreversepsychologymay seem similar on the surface, their underlying intent and direction are very different.
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It has been noted that a certain amount ofreversepsychologyand reverse-reversepsychologyensues as players attempt to calculate the implications of others' potential actions.
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