provocative

Provocation and provoke may refer to:

• Provocation (legal), a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions
• Agent provocateur, a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
• Provocation test, a way of medical testing for conditions such as an allergy by provoking the immune system's response
• Provoke (album), a 1998 album by Altar and their final release on Displeased Records
• Provoke (magazine), a Japanese photography and arts magazine, 1967–1968
• Provoked (film), a 2007 British film starring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews
• Provoked (album), a 2008 album by Henry Rollins
• Provoked (Sunny Sweeney album), a 2014 album by Sunny Sweeney
• Provoke (horse), a racehorse

Provokation (v. lat. provocare ‚hervorrufen‘, ‚herausfordern‘) bezeichnet das gezielte Hervorrufen eines Verhaltens oder einer Reaktion bei anderen Personen. Hierbei agiert der Provokateur bewusst manipulativ oder unbewusst in einer Weise, dass die provozierte Person oder Personengruppe ein tendenziell erwünschtes Verhalten zeigt.