To: blam; Slings and Arrows
Psychologists describe the behavior at "reactance" -- a person's tendency to resist social influences that they perceive as threats to their autonomy. 
80 posted on
02/14/2007 1:03:37 PM PST by
Irish_Thatcherite
(Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
Ye gahds, another former electrical engineering student?!
81 posted on
02/14/2007 1:05:34 PM PST by
Slings and Arrows
("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
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