What is it called when you tell someone not to do something but actually want them to do it, and by you telling them what to not do it provides the means for them to actually engage in said activity? Like during Prohibition, when wine companies made grape bricks telling customers not to leave the bricks for too long or they would turn to wine, and by telling them not to they were hoping for customers to do exactly that.
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This technique is called reverse psychology
And from Merriam-Webster
I think this term can be used for cases when the process of telling the other person not to do something involves telling them how to do it.