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Title / Titel	The moderating role of motive dispositions on reactance
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Summary / Zusammenfassung	According to Brehm’s (1966) theory of psychological reactance people whose freedom to choose an action is threatened get motivated to defend and restore their freedom. Recent research provides evidence for an interaction effect of the area in which the restriction takes place and a person’s self-concept on the amount of reactive behaviour (Traut-Mattausch, Jonas, Niesta, Graupmann, & Frey, 2005). Applying this hypothesis on the motivational self-concept, namely the explicit motive system, we assume that when people are constricted in an area in which they have a high explicit motive, more reactant reactions are observable than when their constriction affects an area that is not relevant for their motivational self-concept. This assumption is tested in several experimental studies.
Project leadership and contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte	lic. phil. Veronika Job (Project Leader) v.job@psychologie.uzh.ch Prof. Dr. Veronika Brandstätter v.brandstaetter@psychologie.uzh.ch
Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch	No project-specific funding
In collaboration with / In Zusammenarbeit mit	Dr. Eva Traut-Mattausch, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Germany Prof. Dr. Eva Jonas, University of Salzburg Germany
Duration of Project / Projektdauer	Dec 2005 to Dec 2007