Timeline for What is the name of the behavior that makes you believe more in something when it contradicts your beliefs?
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| Jul 3, 2011 at 14:25 | comment | added | Mitch | @pageman: ...ok... I'm feeling a bit 'reactant'. That's obviously an example that could be interpreted as "increas[ing] resistance to persuasion", but it just doesn't feel that way. Maybe 'reactant' works fine there but without the so specific meaning desired by the OP. | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 9:45 | comment | added | Paul Amerigo Pajo | @Mitch @Fumble the Huffington Post uses it ;) huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/… “If you've been wounded by Christianity or feel like our world is being wounded, it is easy to be bitter or reactive and to pass that reactance on to any children who look up to you.” | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 20:52 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I agree it's a bit of a technical neologism. Another problem is that thus far it's not a 'productive' term, and I suspect it never will be. You can't really use it to generate the obviously useful word reactant to describe [someone exhibiting] this type of behaviour. That word already exists, and isn't likely to be available for this context as well as its existing meaning. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 14:09 | comment | added | Mitch | This would be the best word...except I've never heard of it before and sounds like a technical neologism. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 3:33 | history | answered | Paul Amerigo Pajo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |