Nah, You Wouldn’t Want to Sign up for My Class on Reverse Psychology

Clearly, you just don’t have what it takes. Only the best and brightest sign up for THAT class. Check the Psych Department’s course catalog—I’m sure you’ll find something more your speed…


Consider auditing Professor Lipton’s lecture series on conformity. After all, everybody’s going.

Pavlovian Conditioning is pet-friendly.

Dr. Krüger is leading a tutorial on psychoanalysis. Of course, he often fails to show up for his own lectures, which may dredge up repressed memories of your estranged father’s abandonment.

Since you nearly have the required credits, why not complete your major with a course on the sunk-cost fallacy?


Again, don’t bother registering for my super exclusive class on reverse psychology. Who would want to be bogged down by all the prestige anyway?


This semester, Professor Holly is offering an elective on stereotype. But, word to the wise, she’s a blonde, so… just don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The class on hindsight bias is over enrolled (could’ve told you that would happen from the start).

Several students received Fs for the seminar on fundamental attribution error. That must be because they are bad people and not because of any extenuating circumstances.

Hm, I could’ve sworn What’s-Her-Face was teaching a course on amnesia.


Let me just be absolutely crystal clear: Reverse Psychology is simply not the class for you. You being, I assume, the sort of student who lacks ambition and vision.


We have a new art elective! They’re designing Rorschach tests. So far, though, they’ve only managed to paint pictures of my older brother beating me up.

For whatever reason, (purchase) every student (Coca-Cola) currently enrolled in (beverages) Subliminal Messaging is (today) overcaffeinated.

Unfortunately, the head of forensic psych has vanished, and we suspect foul play. The five TAs assigned to teach the lesson on diffusion of responsibility noticed the professor’s disappearance immediately, but each assumed the others would report it to the authorities.

Group Dynamics is kind of cliquey, so make sure you get in with the right crowd.


Seriously though—and I hate to belabor the point—please do not even consider signing up for Reverse Psychology. You don’t seem like the kind of scholar interested in an enlightening, potentially life-changing academic experience.


Professor Cox has taken an unexpected sabbatical, which once again demonstrates that anyone who teaches confirmation bias is unreliable.

Yes, the dream interpretation curriculum is popular, but be warned: Students have been known to walk into class only to realize they are completely naked, and then all of their classmates start laughing at them while slowly morphing into the faces of forgotten middle school crushes, and then all their teeth fall out. Just FYI.

You’ve already taken Déjà Vu 101? I’m afraid there’s no record of that in our system.

Personally, I wouldn’t bother with Visiting Lecturer Wong’s class on projection. He just lists and lists endless possibilities without ever arriving at an answer. It gets old fast.


Oh, you do want to sign up for Reverse Psychology after all? Hmm, very well. But please, I beg you, don’t tell all of your friends to do the same.