Psychology
Why being told to clean your room makes you resist
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
You were totally going to clean your room until someone explicitly told you to clean it. Reactance is an unpleasant motivational arousal that occurs when people feel their freedom is threatened. The immediate, petty instinct is to do the exact opposite of the request, purely to prove that no one controls your chaotic life but you.
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