Transcript Team Exercise #4

Daniel Anders
Tilo Käller
Verena Baus
Reactance
• Emotional reaction in direct contradiction to rules
or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific
behavioral freedoms
• Appears when someone is under strong pressure to accept a
certain view or attitude
• The limitation of freedom leads to an enhancement of the
eliminated alternatives
• Someone adopts or strengthens a different alternative than
originally intended
Example:
Learning for an exam would be highly recommendable on part of the
society, nevertheless everyone knows how difficult it is to start
learning, there are always so many other alternative things to do