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#2: Dec 17th 2016 at 8:27:51 AM
Declining to open. The difference is that Reverse Psychology can be about getting the other person to do anything — clean their room, do their homework, leave the haunted house. Briar Patching is Reverse Psychology with intent to get the other character to do something particular to the one doing it.(Throw him in the briar patch rather than hang or throttle him, in the original example),
They are not the same thing.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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Reverse Psychology and Briar Patching appear to be the same trope though the former claims to be a supertrope to the latter.
As described, Briar Patching is the deliberate use of Reverse Psychology to manipulate the action of a person. However, Reverse Psychology is Briar Patching by definition
. The underlying condition is Reactance
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A wick check is pointless - I went through half the examples on Reverse Psychology and they all fit the definition of Briar Patching. Interestingly, Reverse Psychology has a second example section for parents vs. children but its examples are not matching the idea.
My suggestion would be to merge all examples under Briar Patching. There may be a need for an example-less supertrope but it should rather focus on contrasting similar ideas: Briar Patching, Fence Painting, Forbidden Fruit, Schmuck Bait.
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