"Four experiments show that when consumers encounter temptations that conflict with their long-term goals, one self-control mechanism is to exaggerate the negativity of the temptation as a way to resist, a process we call counteractive construal," wrote the researchers.

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But all throughout the month, gas prices continued to recede from their earlier highs, which had a counteractive effect on public opinion about the economy -- especially after Obama announced he was going to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help fight speculators driving the price up on the oil markets.

Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- June, 2011 Chris Weigant 2011

My problem is that every program, every thing that the progressive movement is responsible for is counteractive.

Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question 2010

For every dream of unfettered longing a counteractive impulse seems sooner or later to assert itself: the restless scratch of observation, which snags on real things and difficult "wretched ordinariness".

Love in literature 2011

My problem is that every program, every thing that the progressive movement is responsible for is counteractive.

Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question 2010

“His opposition to Jackson,” wrote Adams, “is now involuntary, and mere counteractive.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

“His opposition to Jackson,” wrote Adams, “is now involuntary, and mere counteractive.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

Bad asparagus is just counteractive to this plan — which is merely decorating some really fine specimen.

Blanched Asparagus with Almonds, Shallots & Lemon 2010

It will send a positive counteractive message and the burning will have the unintended result of exponentially increasing the number of Qurans in the country compared to however many are destroyed.

Opinion Roundup: Burning The Koran 2010

It will send a positive counteractive message and the burning will have the unintended result of exponentially increasing the number of Qurans in the country compared to however many are destroyed.

Opinion Roundup: Burning The Koran 2010