Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.[1] By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at another's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious and deceptive. Social influence is not necessarily negative. For example, doctors can try to persuade patients to change unhealthy habits. Social influence is generally perceived to be harmless when it respects the right of the influenced to accept or reject and is not unduly coercive. Depending on the context and motivations, social influence may constitute underhanded manipulation.
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- machiavellian personality
- narcissistic personality disorder
- paranoid personality disorder
- borderline personality disorder
- dependent personality disorder
- histrionic personality disorder
- passive–aggressive behavior
- type A angry personalities
- antisocial personality disorder
- behavioral addiction
- Advertising
- Appeal to emotion
- Blackmail
- Brainwashing
- Bullying
- Culture of fear
- Coercion
- Coercive persuasion
- Common sense
- Confidence trick
- Critical thinking
- Crowd manipulation
- Deception
- Demagogy
- Dirty tricks
- Discrediting tactic
- Dissimulation
- Dumbing down
- Emotional blackmail
- Enabling
- Fallacy
- Fear mongering
- Fraud
- Gaslighting
- Half-truth
- Interrogation
- List of confidence tricks
- List of fallacies
- Lying
- Martyrdom video
- Media manipulation
- Mind control
- Mobbing
- Personal boundaries
- Persuasion
- Propaganda
- Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
- Psychological abuse
- Psychopathic thought processes
- Rhetoric
- Shaming
- Sheeple
- Shills
- Smear campaign
- Social engineering (political science)
- Social engineering (security)
- Social influence
- Sophistry
- Spin
- Subliminal stimuli
- Victim blaming
- Victimology
- Weasel words
- Whispering campaign
- Workplace bullying
