When reactance is happening in our minds and bodies, we have negative thoughts, and we often feel anger, hostility, and aggression. People who strongly feel reactance in response to threats to ...

Reactance, as I laid out in Part 1, can be stronger if the coercive persuasion grating on you comes from someone whose values you hate.

If you’ve dealt with reactance, you surely know the two equations for computing inductive and capacitive reactance. But unless you’ve really dug into it, you may only know the formula t… ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a case study in human contrarianism. In staggering numbers, people refused—and still refuse—to comply with mask and vaccine mandates. Some bridled at being sent home to ...

Reactance Theory & Employee Performance. Reactance theory grew out of research on consumer behavior. This psychological theory describes how people react when they sense a threat to their freedom ...

The child who will wear anything except what her mother suggests. These are all examples of reactance: the inclination to do precisely the opposite of what someone wants you to.

In the December 2008 issue of EC&M, we talked about calculating the inductive reactance of conductors that are in close proximity to (or touching) one another. We also noted that the inductance and, ...