reverse psychologynoun [ U ]
uk/rɪˌvɜːs saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/us/rɪˌvɝːs saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒi/a method of trying to make someone do what you want by asking them to do the opposite and expecting them to disagree with you
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- cajole
- get sth out of sb
- persuade
- persuasion
- preach
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis