Michael Britt 
>
>   Maybe you've seen this video on YouTube.  It's
>   definitely "going viral" as they say.  Everyone is
>   referring to it as an example of "reverse
>   psychology", which I suppose it could be if one
>   defines "reverse psychology" as those times when
>   adults tell their children to do the opposite of
>   what they want because they know that their child
>   will do the opposite of what they tell them to do
>   (did I explain that right? :)

Sounds like what some clinicians call a paradoxical directive.

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Robert W. Wildblood, PhD
Adjunct Psychology Faculty
Germanna Community College
[email protected]  


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