It is a defense mechanism against guilt/shame/blame.
It is a kind of reaction formation that leads to anger and rage.
In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, defence mechanisms are psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality in order to defend against feelings of anxiety and unacceptable impulses to maintain one’s self schema.
When anxiety becomes overwhelming, it is the ego’s place to protect the person by employing defence mechanisms. Guilt, embarrassment and shame often accompany anxiety.
The anxiety is felt as an increase in bodily or mental tension and the signal that the organism receives in this way allows it the possibility of taking defensive action regarding the perceived danger.
And there is a certain type of manipulation technique:
Brandishing anger: Manipulator uses anger to brandish sufficient emotional intensity and rage to shock the victim into submission. The manipulator is not actually angry, he or she just puts on an act. He just wants what he wants and gets «angry» when denied.
In conclusion, after all these psychological explanations, if I want to come up with one word for this kind of person, it would be impetuous or impulsive.
of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action or emotion.
impetuous, impulsive both refer to persons who are hasty and precipitate in action, or to actions not preceded by thought.
Also from vocabulary.com:
Impetuous has to do with doing things on the spur of the moment — and not good things. Being impetuous usually goes along with being impatient and easily angered.
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чтобы мне доказали, что я не прав
Of course, we would be glad to be proven wrong about our conclusions.
Sheriff, prepare to be proven wrong.
I’m ready to be proven wrong.
I do love to be proven wrong.
Richard, never been more excited to be proven wrong.
I’d love nothing more than to be proven wrong.
I would be very glad to be proven wrong in my suspicions…
Confident people are not afraid to be proven wrong.
I would be very glad to be proven wrong in my suspicions…
As always, we want our skepticism to be proven wrong.
I hope to be proven wrong in these concerns.
For if you were to be proven wrong, your claim to superiority would be threatened.
Ибо если изобличить вашу неправоту, ваши притязания на превосходство окажутся под угрозой.
I would love to be proven wrong in my exercise of caution.
However, an innumerable amount of ideas have been and will continue to be proven wrong.
Тем не менее, среди бесчисленного множества идей всегда было и будет много ошибочных.
Some might’ve prayed to be proven wrong.
Но есть люди, которые, возможно, проповедовали ее неправильно.
I’m sure that you’ve dealt with eyewitnesses who are certain of what they saw, only to be proven wrong.
Я не сомневаюсь, что вы имели дело со свидетелями, которые были уверены в увиденном, пока не было доказано, что они ошибались.
«I would like to be proven wrong.»
«I’d like to be proven wrong.»
«We must prepare for the worst scenario but it would be nice to be proven wrong» — is the leitmotif of virtually all major news-makers.
«Нужно готовиться к худшему сценарию, приятно будет ошибиться» — это лейтмотив практически всех больших ньюсмейкеров.
As when I marched against Putin in 2005, raising the alarm about his turn toward despotism, I want to be proven wrong.
Как когда я выходил на марши против Путина в 2005 году, трубя тревогу о его курсе на деспотизм, я хочу, чтобы меня опровергли.
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- break
- confound
- contradict
- controvert
- defeat
- demolish
- dismay
- disprove
- expose
- invalidate
- negate
- oppugn
- overcome
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- parry
- rebut
- silence
- subvert
- tap
- upset
- vanquish
- blow sky-high
- bring to naught
- knock the props out (from under)
- prove false
- put down
- set aside
- shut up
On this page you’ll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prove wrong, such as: break, confound, contradict, controvert, defeat, and demolish.
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO PROVE WRONG
- blow sky-high
- break
- bring to naught
- confound
- contradict
- controvert
- defeat
- demolish
- dismay
- disprove
- expose
- invalidate
- knock the props out (from under)
- negate
- oppugn
- overcome
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- parry
- prove false
- prove wrong
- put down
- rebut
- set aside
- shut up
- silence
- subvert
- tap
- upset
- vanquish
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.