Manipulation Techniques: The Ultimate Guide to Master the Art of Persuasion. Discover How to Influence People Through Mind Control Techniques

By Dan Anderson

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In this book, you will have a deeper and completed understanding of all the Manipulation aspects. You will learn:

 

·       What is Manipulation?

·       A guide to manipulation - ill and good aspects

·       Deception

·       Persuasion

·       Hypnosis

·       Mind control techniques

·       Emotional Manipulation

·       Influence through Seduction 

·       How to control behavior, emotions and relationships 

 

... AND MORE!!!

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Dan Anderson
• Release date: Dec 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393348757

Book preview

Chapter 1: Manipulation – An Introduction

Manipulation is an encouraging action which is interesting. It's not precisely coercion, not accurately persuasion, and not completely deception-like. It is a widespread effect that happens in nearly every sphere of life: politics, art, education and even interpersonal relationships. Yet the academic literature that tries to cope with the challenge of methodically classifying and analyzing the very nature of the experience remains inadequate. Very little academic work was done to explore, investigate and explain the basic structure and uniqueness of manipulation in relation to other motivating actions. Most of the literature that seeks to answer this problem assembles and integrates the concept into one description that is definitive. We would like to open our own discussion of manipulation by displaying 3 aspects which have greatly helped us to understand the important aspects of manipulation, in particular to explore the distinctiveness of the concept and the secrets behind its huge impact. In a debate on the special characteristics of exploitation, Joel Rudinow notes that most men ...' It would distinguish manipulation from persuasion, on the one hand, and coercion, on the other. He emphasizes the sophistication of the phenomenon and gives the following complex definition: Attempts to manipulate S when A attempts to motivate S's behavior in a complex manner by means of deception or by playing on the supposed weakness of S. Robert Goodin, who is interested in ethical species, He understands clearly that manipulation would be neither persuasion nor deception, and proposes to manipulative advertising the following sophisticated definition: ... First, we might define it as advertising that included efforts to non-persuasively alter consumer perceptions of attributes in terms other than deception. Each of these intellectuals highlights various essential elements and factors of manipulation, such as complexity (Rudinow), trickery (Goodin), and unreasonable motives (Phillips). These differences help to concretize the improbability of arranging and summing up in one clear and conclusive definition the very essence of manipulation. There will also be significant definitions of manipulations (or, more specifically, what we instinctively classify as manipulative behavior) that oppose each concept, or at least are not included within the concepts of the umbrella. We intend to use a different methodology in this book which concentrates on manipulation in a very broad sense. Like Rudinow, Goodin, and Phillips, We'll be proposing our own manipulation definition. However, contrary to those thinkers, my proposal is far more compassionate and not as successful. We'll only offer a broad and general definition as a starting point and an introduction to my main analysis. The main emphasis will be on a description of the deceptive landscape through a detailed study of the particular features of the phenomena and the circumstances required for it to exist (a summary that interpretation alone cannot give). We'll start by asking the questions: What must a rational human being, who wants to be manipulative, do? What impact would he hope to build? What's driving him to use manipulative tricks? Taking up these queries is meant to make our initial discourse easier. Exploring the problem from this point of view is useful in creating a deeper interpretation of manipulation's particular features and helps one to stop grappling with trickery issues that cannot be answered satisfactorily. (For example, how do we define manipulative interaction?) We'll actually try to look at a manipulative interface because it's built in a logical manipulator laboratory. For example, staying solely in a logical manipulator's laboratory appears to avoid the very obstacle of coercive actions falling into grasp. The reason is that sooner or later, nearly every rational manipulative strategy plan has to contend with dynamic interaction that is likely to yield unforeseen results. The next chapters are presented on the theoretical-practical basis, and provide several real-life illustrations. We start with a rational motivator planning his moves; the very stuff of actual political problems, ethical dilemmas and intellectual challenges are different possible outcomes of his strategy. In summary, this introductory chapter is intended to sketch the landscape of our discourse, evoke analytical reasoning, and lay the groundwork for understanding the challenges posed to passionate advocates of freedom, autonomy, and open society by the manipulation phenomenon.

1.1. What is Manipulation?

The first concern which is frequently asked is what is manipulation? In this guideline we will address coercion in terms of psychological coercion, which is a social force that operates through coercive, misleading, or underhanded techniques to alter the attitudes or beliefs of others, or the subject. Most of the methods of the manipulators would be regarded as deceptive, sneaky, violent and predatory as they will aim to strengthen their own interests and gains usually at the expense of another person. Although the social impact is not necessarily harmful in itself, where an individual or community is being influenced it has the ability to affect them. Social influence is typically understood as something harmless, as in the case of a doctor who works to compel their patients to eventually adopt good behaviors. This applies to any social impact that is worthy of honoring those involved, their right to choose, and is not excessively coercive. On the other hand, when anyone wants to choose their own way and uses people against their own desire, then the social impact will be negative and is usually generally frowned upon. Emotional and psychological manipulation is perceived as a form of coercion and persuasion. This form of mind manipulation can include many components such as harassment and brainwashing. This will mostly be seen by people as being violent or misleading in nature. Many that plan to use coercion will do so to attempt to manipulate those around them. The manipulator would have some final goal in mind and will operate through types of abuse to coerce those around them to help the manipulator reach the ultimate goal. They often involve emotional manipulation. Many who use coercion will use techniques like brainwashing, mind control, or intimidation to force people to perform the assignments. The manipulator's subject may not want to execute the job but feel they have no other option because of the blackmail or other techniques used. Most individuals who are deceitful lack adequate caring and empathy toward others so they may not even see their actions as a problem. Other opportunists just want to reach their final goal and don't worry about who got bothered or hurt along the way. Additionally, manipulative people often fear to get into a healthy relationship as they're afraid others won't accept it. Someone with a manipulative personality will often be unable to take responsibility for their own behaviors, issues, and lives. Since they are not in a position to take accountability for these problems, the deceiver will use the manipulation tactics to get someone else to take responsibility. Manipulators are often in a position to use the same tactics found in other forms of mind control to gain the influence they want over others. One of the tactics most used is called emotional blackmail. That is where the manipulator acts to generate compassion or remorse about the matter they exploit. These two emotions are chosen because they are considered the two strongest of all human emotions and are the most likely to spur others into the manipulator's desired action. The manipulator will then be able to take full advantage of the subject, using the sympathy or guilt they have created to force others to cooperate or help them attain their ultimate goal. The manipulator will often not only be able to develop these emotions, but will also be able to motivate degrees of sympathy or guilt that are far out of proportion to the current situation. This means they can take a situation like missing out on a party seeming like an issue is lacking out on a funeral or something really important. Emotional manipulation is yet another tactic manipulators adopt. One of the other strategies that many manipulators have been successful is to use a form of abuse which is known as crazy making. Usually this tactic is aimed with the intent of developing self-doubt in the matter being manipulated; this self-doubt will often become so strong that some subjects may begin to feel that they are going crazy. The manipulator will sometimes use kinds of inactive-aggressive behavior to bring about madness. They can often want to verbally express support or acceptance of the subject, but instead offer non-verbal signals that reflect conflicting meanings. Often the manipulator will actively seek to discredit certain incidents or behaviors while loudly showing its support for the same behavior. If the manipulator is spotted in the act, they use denial, rational explanation, reasoning, and ill-intention deception to get out of the distress. One of the biggest problems with mental opportunists is that they are not every time able to identify what others around them may need and will lose the capacity to achieve or even consider those needs. This does not excuse the behavior they are doing, but often others' needs and desires are not taken into consideration or are not a priority for the manipulator so they can perform manipulative actions without feeling guilty or shameful. This can make it hard to stop the behavior patterns and rationally explain why the manipulator needs to stop it. Furthermore, the manipulator may find it extremely hard for them to form worthwhile and long-lasting relationships with people because they will always feel used to the people they are with and will have difficulty trusting the manipulator. The problem comes from both sides in developing relationships; the manipulator won't be able to understand the other person's needs while the other person won't be able to develop the requisite emotional bonds or confidence in the manipulator.

1.2. The effective manipulation

An effective manipulator had to have strategies in hand which will help them to enhance in using people to achieve their own ultimate objective. While there are several concepts about what makes a good manipulator, we'll look at the 3 requirements that George K. Simon, a successful author of psychology, has set out. As per Simon, the manipulator should: 1. be able to hide from the victim their hostile conducts and thoughts. 2. be able to identify the destructibility and weaknesses   of their intended subject or victims to determine which tactics will be the most effective in achieving their objectives. 3. Have some degree of ruthlessness readily available and they won't have to deal with any discomforts that may arise as a result of hurting the victims if it comes to that. That can be physical or emotional harm. The first task the manipulator must satisfy in order to exploit their targets effectively is to conceal their hostile actions and intentions. If the manipulator goes about telling their intentions to others or still acts rude to everyone, no one can hang around long enough to have been fooled. Rather, the manipulator must have the ability to conceal his thoughts from others and act as normal as is all. Even those who are being exploited, at least not at the beginning, do not know it. The manipulator is going to be sweet, act like their closest buddy and maybe help them out with some problem or another. The manipulator has enough information about them by the time the subject becomes aware of the issue to coerce the subject into continuing on. The manipulator would also need to be able to assess what the weaknesses are of their intended target or perpetrator. This can help them figure out which tactics to use to achieve the overall goal. Often the manipulator will be able to do this step with a little intuition and some will require any sort of experience with the topic until they come up with the whole strategy. The 3 requirement is to be ruthless on the manipulator. It won't be going well if the manipulator puts all of their work into it and then concerns about how the subject will end up being fair. If they cared about the subject, they are unlikely to be going forward with this strategy at all. The manipulator won't care at all about the subject and doesn't really care if any harm, whether in physical or emotional, occurs to the subject as long as the overall objective is met. One factor opportunists are so effective is that the target always refuses to know they are being exploited in the process until later on. We might think all goes well; maybe we think they've found a new buddy in the manipulator. They are trapped by the time the target knows that they are being exploited or that they no longer wish to be a part of the process. The manipulator will be able to take advantage of many different tactics, such as emotional manipulation to finally get their way.

1.3. Controlling Victims

One thing the manipulator wants to be able to achieve in order to see success is to control its subjects. There are some common explanations present that better understand how this can be achieved by the manipulator. Two of the theories to be discussed in this section will include those begun by Harriet Braiker and Simon. Harriet Braiker Harriet Braiker is a clinical psychologist who wrote a book on self-help. She's defined five basic ways in her book that the manipulator can control his subjects. These include: Positive enhancement Negative enhancement Partial or sporadic enhancement Punishment Stressful learning which offers only one trial the first two strategies addressed are positive enhancement and negative enhancement. The manipulator will use a variety of tactics in positive reinforcement such as public recognition, facial expressions (such as a smile or a compelled laugh), gifts, attention approval, money, excessive apologizing, superficial compassion which may include fake tears, superficial charm, and praise. The point of using such strengthening is to give the person a reason to want to be a friend of yours. If you give somebody a gift or some money, when the time comes, they may be more ready to help you out. If you can make the target feel bad for you, so eventually they'll have the support they need to be by your side. The other type of strengthening that can be applied is negative reinforcement. In this technique the manipulator eliminates the target from a stressful position as a reward for doing something else. An example of this would be You're not going to have to do your homework if you want me to do that for you. Each of these has different strengths and disadvantages that want the manipulator to get out of the subject what they want. The manipulator will often employ a combination of different tactics to get the things they want. A manipulator may also employ partial or periodic reinforcement. This method of strengthening is used to adequately build an environment of