Manipulation Techniques: How to understand and influence people using Mind Control, Subliminal Persuasion, Self Discipline, NLP and Body Language. 101 Tips&tricks and Dark Psychology Secrets by Moore David Cliff

Author:Moore, David Cliff [Moore, David Cliff]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6.

Manipulation Techniques

There are a lot of techniques that are used by manipulators to gain absolute or a substantial level of control on their victims. Most times, manipulators lookout for some types of personalities to prey on. The reason for this is that they feel the need to manipulate their victims easily. They look out for the vulnerable parts of others and use it against them.

Most of the time, their preys are either naïve, empathetic, those with low self-esteem, or with a lack of confidence. Below are some common techniques used by manipulators:

Gaslighting

This is a style of manipulation that makes use of three different phrases: “it didn't happen," "you are out of your mind," "it's your imagination." Some experts believe that this may be one of the most dangerous manipulative techniques there is as it aims as disorganizing and killing the victim's sense of reality.

When a person is manipulated with this technique, he loses touch with his reality and is no longer able to trust himself. What is worse is that the victims of this type of manipulative technique do not feel the need to call out the manipulator for maltreating them.

Projection

In this type of manipulation, the manipulator finds someone else to blame for everything that goes wrong around them. This is something that is common with most people but is more common amongst narcissists and psychopaths.

Here, the manipulator makes use of a defense tactic, which involves shifting responsibility from his/herself for wrongdoings and negative attitudes and blames everything on another person asides himself.

Generalizations

This happens in cases where a person chooses to misunderstand another for ulterior motives intentionally.

Have you ever found yourself in a case where a sibling, for instance, refuses to think about the long-term effects of his actions or that of your parents? Though you haven't said anything as such, this sibling goes about telling everyone who cares to listen that you called your parents "wicked" just because you stated that you were not comfortable with a certain major decision they are making for you.

In cases like this, you find yourself wondering what is really happening and start to believe that maybe your sibling didn't understand what you said. The truth is that this type of person understands their victims clearly, but they choose to run with an entirely different story.

This is very common with narcissists who aren't very good at making very sound intellectual decisions because they are plain lazy when it comes to using their brains, so they would rather make hasty generalization of whatever a person says than to make a critical assessment of the word of another person.

They usually make conclusions and statements that are not in line with the thoughts and words of their victims, and they do not try to look at things from a different perspective to see where their victim is coming from or consider the reasons why they said what they said.

Moving the Goalposts

There is a common logical fallacy known as moving the goalposts, and sociopaths and abusive narcissists make good use of it all the time.

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