"I am going to play Devils Advocate" No, I didnt see the movie, and dont have time to watch it.
Please tell me, I ask people all the time and they pussy foot around the question, because they have no idea either.
Please give examples!!!
Thank You soooo Much!
2007-11-09 23:21:01 · 5 answers · asked by Miss Rhonda 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
"I am going to play Devils Advocate" No, I didnt see the movie, and dont have time to watch it.
Please tell me, I ask people all the time and they pansy foot around the question, because they have no idea either.
Please give examples!!!
Thank You soooo Much!
2007-11-09 23:21:54 · update #1
Example please.... Scenario...
2007-11-09 23:32:11 · update #2
ok so like, playing the other role so they can see both sides???
2007-11-09 23:59:51 · update #3
Good definitions... here's an example.
So your friend is telling you about how he's going to confront his new boss about how he's been treating staff and YOU say, "I understand why you'd want to say all that, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here... do you think your boss might decide to fire you for you blunt approach? Maybe you should phrase it more like this..."
Not the best example in the world, but I think it's pretty good.
2007-11-09 23:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by Meredith L 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here's a Wikipedia answer (see link). I'm going to play the devil's advocate here and say that Wikipedia is useful for this sort of thing.
Here's another example of what it means to 'play Devil's advocate'.
A friend of Oberst Graf Claus Phillip Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg (one of the men executed after he attempted to kill Adolph Hitler in 1944) said of him that "one of his characteristics was that he really enjoyed playing the devil's advocate. Conservatives were convinced that he was a ferocious Nazi, and ferocious Nazis were convinced he was an unreconstructed conservative. He was neither."
2007-11-10 07:28:55 · answer #2 · answered by Stag S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The assumption in playing devils advocate is the person "playing" agrees with you but for the purpose of showing the other side and getting your reaction, he/she will ask a question the other side would have asked.
2007-11-10 07:28:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
G W's answer was correct. But to add onto it sometimes the 'devils advocate' will introduce a horrible worst case scenario just to introduce the idea into your mind.
2007-11-10 07:32:14 · answer #4 · answered by blueink 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NEGATIVE RESPONSES
2007-11-10 08:23:52 · answer #5 · answered by ms nikki 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋