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self-defeating behavior  

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  • For social psychologists, a self-defeating behavior is any behavior that normally ends up with a result that is something the person doing the behavior doesn't want to happen. If you are trying to accomplish some goal, and something you do makes it less likely that you will reach that goal, then that is a self-defeating behavior. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Self-Defeating Behavior]

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