If you’ve raised kids, or are trying to enact change in organization, you know well the phenomenon of psychological reactance, although you probably don’t know it by that name. You might call ...

They recommend further research to explore other psychological factors that may generate reactance in people. “Regulatory measures are not the only way of overcoming societal challenges.

We test for reactance as a cause of coercion failure with two novel experiments. Each experiment pairs a coercive threat treatment with a matched “natural costs” counterpart that imposes the same ...

Daniel R. Biggers, Can the Backlash Against Voter ID Laws Activate Minority Voters? Experimental Evidence Examining Voter Mobilization Through Psychological Reactance, Political Behavior, Vol. 43, No.