Reverse Psychology in Our Daily Life
We always need some tips and tricks to tackle with the problems of our everyday life. Reverse Psychology serves this purpose.
What is Reverse Psychology?
To understand this concept, first, we need to see what is psychology? Psychology is basically the study of Mind and Behavior. It is a vast field that incorporates many assets of human. These are personality development, behavioral changes and many others. But what is reverse psychology? Have you ever heard about it? It is basically changing of a behavior or belief by telling or saying the opposite. We might not know what is it but we surely experience it in our daily lives. Let’s find out how.
Video Thumbnails and Titles:
Everybody uses YouTube to see different videos related to different things. While watching them, we come across many videos in the suggestions. Sometimes, you might see some videos with thumbnails like “don’t watch the video”, ‘weak hearted people should not watch this” or another “laughing is forbidden during this video.” What is it for? Will they arrest you if you watch the video or laugh during it? No, not at all. This is what you call reverse psychology.
It is basically about reversing the commands with the one you want. For example, as these thumbnails do. They reverse their desired action. They tell you not to watch the video but in reality, they want you see to it. This is Human Psychology, we become more curious when someone say ‘No’ to particular things. We become more anxious about knowing that specific thing.
Changing a Kid’s Behavior:
Parents need to apply reverse psychology to change their kid’s behavior. For instance, telling them not to eat the food, will make them to become more curious and eat the whole meal. This is helpful because kids like to do that thing which you forbade them to do. You will forbade them going out of home, instead of obeying your orders, they will become more anxious to go outside. You will restrict them from watching an adult advertisement on tv, this makes them to do something to see that advertisement on the internet.
Conclusion:
No doubt, it is very important to restrict your children from particular things but this should be done in a systematic manner. We can bring many changes to our environment with the use of Reverse Psychology. This is not linked to kids only. It can be applied on anybody.
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