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In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation (German: Reaktionsbildung) is a defense mechanism in which emotions, desires and impulses that are anxiety-producing or unacceptable to the ego are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.[1]

  1. ^ Charles Rycroft, A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London, 2nd Edn, 1995)

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an empirical differential mathematical expression for the reaction rate of a given reaction in terms of concentrations of chemical species and constant...

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