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William R. Miller, "On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life" (Guilford, 2021)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Is There a Normal Response to Unwanted Advice?

In the social sphere, with authority and hierarchies. And a, you talk about this concept of reactants. Ye, it's teno reaction to being given unsolicited advice is either not to do it or to do the opposite. Why is that? Ah, well, cite some evolutionary research from this psychologist in australia who talks about dominance, hierarchies in the animal kingdom. How you'd decide who's in charge? Ah, and you can become the alpha animal. You have the stuff for it. Fortunately, that doesn't mean you have to kill all the other animals. That would not be good for survival. There there's a way of yielding. With wolves,

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