Reactance theory does not address how harmful or innocuous control can be and may seem to be too circumscribed to explain the nature of general harmful behavior. However, the limitations of its scope to specific and reactive control motivation do not detract from its power to explain battles for control dynamics. It is formulated to anticipate these specific incidents and, in doing so, addresses harm in general.With this purpose and the applicability of reactance theory in mind, the terms control and specific control are used interchangeably and, because reactance is control motivation, the terms reactance and control motivation are also used interchangeably. A control model, subsuming these concepts and general control, is introduced next, in which control (unless identified by a general control descriptor) is the belief in the freedom to engage in a specific nonharmful or harmful behavior to reach a specific nonharmful or harmful goal that can be exercised for a variety of reasons, most particularly when threatened or taken away, arousing reactance in proportion to its distinctiveness and importance.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14663128619702463487

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Francis Schaeffer

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Yiddish Proverb

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

Seth Rogen

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

William Ellery Channing

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Richard Bach

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For we have thought the longer thoughtsAnd gone the shorter way.And we have danced to devil's tunesShivering home to pray;I take you now and for always,For always is always now.

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Burton Richter

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