Freedom and Reactance

By R. A. Wicklund. 2024

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Mobile Ad Effectiveness: Hyper-Contextual Targeting with Crowdedness (2016, background): “Similarly, scholars have documented that when consumers perceive a threat to their freedom due to spatial confinement, they may react by engaging in actions designed to reassert their freedom (Brehm 1966, Wicklund 1974).”
Seeking Freedom through Variety (2009, background): “Reactance is a motivational state that is aroused when people perceive threats to their freedom; consequently, it produces behaviors aimed at reasserting this freedom (Brehm 1966; Wicklund 1974).”
‘Should I Buy, Hoard, or Hide?’- Consumers’ responses to perceived scarcity (2019, background): “According to reactance theory, if an individual’s freedom is threatened or eliminated, s/he experiences psychological reactance, which is a motivational state directed toward safeguarding a person’s behavioral freedom (Brehm 1966; Clee and Wicklund 1980; Wicklund 1974).”
What Drives Whom? A Cultural Perspective on Human Agency (2001, background): “Conversely, the absence or removal of choice or control has been shown to have detrimental effects on intrinsic motivation, performance, and even health status (Brehm, 1966; Deci, Speigel, Ryan, Koestner, & Kaufman, 1982; Schulz & Hanusa, 1978; Seligman, 1975; Wicklund, 1974; Zuckerman, Porac, Lathi”
Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration (2008, background): “Wicklund (1974) states that individuals vary in the level of autonomy they desire.”
The Reactance Restoration Scale (RRS): A Measure of Direct and Indirect Restoration (2007, background): “Although hypothesized as a motivational state, research suggests certain individuals are predisposed or maintain a proclivity to experience reactance in situations more than others (Wicklund, 1974).”
Deflecting Reactance: The Role of Similarity in Increasing Compliance and Reducing Resistance (2005, background): “Congruent with reactance theory, a large literature shows that social influence is more successful when it does not threaten important freedoms (S. S. Brehm & Brehm, 1981; Wicklund, 1974), yet, according to the theory, threats to freedom do not inevitably reduce compliance.”
Ain't Misbehavin: Workplace Deviance as Organizational Resistance (2007, background): “Although individuals vary in their need for autonomy, such needs are critical to individuals because they believe that they can control their own destinies; it is only through the freedom to make decisions and choose actions that they can maximize their own satisfaction (J. W. Brehm, 1966; Wicklund,”
Psychological Reactance and Persuasive Health Communication: A Test and Extension of the Intertwined Model (2007, background): “…1966; Hammock & Brehm, 1966), derogating the source (Kohn & Barnes, 1977), denial of the threat (Worchel, Andreoli, & Archer, 1976), enacting a different freedom to gain a feeling of choice and control (Wicklund, 1974), and a boomerang effect in one's position on an issue (Worchel & Brehm, 1970).”
Further Evidence That Psychological Reactance Can Be Modeled as a Combination of Anger and Negative Cognitions (2007, background): “Research (Dillard & Shen, 2005) examining the association between reactance and anger has reified early speculation by PRT theorists (Brehm, 1966; Wicklund, 1974).”