Defensive listening: The term defensive learning refers to the propensity of an individual to take someone else's comment or perspective as a personal attack to oneself. In other words, an individual who is experiencing defensive learning will create a wrong or poor impression against the comment or answer related to anything from someone else.
Anyone who is experiencing defensive listening and behaves defensively is trying to protect themselves or ignore from feeling in an uncomfortable way, negative light, or failure.
President Andrew Jackson ignored the Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia, but later issued a proclamation of the Supreme Court's ultimate power to decide constitutional questions and emphasizing that its decisions had to be obeyed.
