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… ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Psychological reactance is a motivational state aroused when real or perceived personal freedoms are threatened, reduced, or eliminated. Although psychological reactance theory has existed for almost ...

Reactance bias is thought of as the “F.U. I won’t do what you tell me” bias, but reactance is more nuanced than that. Originally defined by Brehm in 1966, it is “the tendency to do the ...

Reactance occurs when we feel our freedom is being suppressed by an authority and just to reassert our freedom, we act in the opposite direction to what the authority dictates ...

Respondents indicated the ways their organizations used electronic surveillance and described their reactions using open-ended comments, and then completed measures of state and trait reactance, ...