Anti-cyclical behavior
Anti-cyclical behavior describes processes that go against general expectations or against normal behavioral patterns .
An anti-posture is always only one half of a movement or a process. It always presupposes a "against". It is not always possible to clearly determine which side is viewed as cyclical and which as countercyclical.
The expression has become common in the following areas in particular:
- General standard of living, e.g. B. for social attitudes or attitudes to belief in technology and progress.
- Financial policy : low public investment volume in times of economic boom in order to keep the investment ceiling low; Public spending to stimulate trade in the sense of countercyclical financial policy .
- Stock market : buying behavior contrary to the usual trend (selling when the price rises and buying when the price falls), see countercyclical investing .
- Training and further education: Striving for training in a segment with currently few opportunities in the hope that the situation will be reversed by the time the training is completed.
- in communication situations , especially in the professional area: respond to unfriendly reactions with friendliness, answer questions with counter-questions, etc.