Provoking example sentences

In studies that tested the frustration-aggression theory, provoking the person and making her/him angry was one way of inducing frustration.Some of the principles of rational thinking are: challenging your distorted thinking and irrational beliefs, driving out potentially intrusive negative anxiety-provoking thoughts, and making positive statements.The most important is repression, in which anxietyprovoking behaviours or thoughts are totally dismissed by the unconscious.Water must be kept on the move and made to do things; when static it is wasted and provoking.