Reverse Psychology Quotes:

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Vegetables, Psychology, Meat, Side Dishes, Reverse Psychology

Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.

- Steve Carell

topic: Stupid, Believe, Thinking, Christmas Party, Reverse Psychology

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

- River Phoenix

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Lying, Names, Psychology, Personal Things, Does It Matter

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

- Daniel Handler

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

topic: Book, Editors, Assessment, Pharmacy, Reverse Psychology

It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Thinking, Self, People, Reverse Psychology

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

- Holly Marie Combs

topic: Husband, Thinking, Names, Reverse Psychology