Psychological reactance theory (PRT; Brehm, 1966) posits that when something threatens or
eliminates people's freedom of behavior, they experience psychological reactance, a …

BACKGROUND. Interest in the health and behavioral effects of economic insecurity appears
to vary with the performance of the economy. The current recession in the United States and …

Since Brehm first proposed reactance theory in 1966, many studies have explored the
remarkable psychological phenomenon of reactance, which Miron and Brehm reviewed in …

Background Prenatal mental disorders are associated with maternal and fetal adverse
outcomes, while few studies have been performed in mainland China. This study aimed to …

Background Mindfulness meditation training interventions have been shown to improve
markers of health, but the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are not known. Building …

When experience with uncontrollable events gives rise to the expectation that events in the
future will also elude control, disruptions in motivation, emotion, and learning may ensue." …

OBJECTIVE: The aim was to test a model of the influence of maternal prenatal psychosocial
stress on birth outcomes after controlling for biomedical risk. STUDY DESIGN: In a …

In this paper we review the basic assumptions formulated by Jack Brehm in 1966 in his
theory of psychological reactance and we sample some interesting directions of research on …

Cognitive theories of adherence to difficult courses of action and findings from previous
survey research on coping with a major life event—job loss—were used to generate a …

With empirical research on abusive supervision flourishing, there is an increasing need for
an integrative framework that accounts for how and why individuals vary in their perceptions …