5 types of manipulation

[Carding 4 Carders]

You and I communicate with different people, and each has its own view of things and their own ways to get what you want. Here are the five most common types of manipulation - recognize yourself in the situations described and don't get caught!

A bad person is a bad argument​

Here is a very telling and understandable name: in order to discredit an argument or opinion of a person, you can discredit him, and it does not matter how. For example:

• “You first dress like a human, and then go with your ideas”;
• “And this is what a person with a criminal record tells us?”;
• “Why are you listening to him, he even manages to make a mistake in the word agreement!”;
• "You first come on time to meetings, and then try to take the floor!"

This type of manipulation boils down to discrediting a person in any way, and through his denigration to show that everything he says (arguments, arguments, ideas, thoughts, suggestions) has no right to exist. Discrediting can hit anything: a person can be ignorant, inexperienced, incompetent, or unsympathetic - in general, anything can be found in the arsenal of a manipulator. Of course, this offends, humiliates, drives out of oneself, acts on an emotional level. A kind of attack on the person himself, and not on what he says. Essentially, there is absolutely nothing here.

Inconsistency of words with deeds​

As in the previous kind of manipulation, here the discussion of the topic is essentially replaced by the discussion of the opponent. Only if before that there was any slanderous discrediting, in this case the manipulator shows the inconsistency of the interlocutor's arguments with his own behavior, manifestations of character, life principles and position. Let's say you argue about the war, and your counterpart asks: "How can you argue , if you are in any war did not participate?".
Examples:

• “What do you teach me when you yourself did this in your youth?”;
• “You are here talking about modern fashion, but you yourself are wearing worn out, dirty shoes of Chinese production! Do not make me laugh!";
• “You are talking about the fact that you should not show aggression towards animals, but you yourself wear a leather jacket!”;
• "You will first learn to speak Russian yourself without mistakes, and then make comments on how to put stress on me!"

Personal gain​

The manipulator questions the sincerity and truthfulness of his opponent's words, suspecting him of personal interest, self-interest or bias. That is why Nikita calls this manipulation “personal gain”. Like all other manipulations, it has the character of an attack on the person, since it hits the person himself and, as always, is not related to the subject of discussion.
Examples:

• “You are so insistent on taking this particular candidate; I think this is some kind of your person. And there is no need to deny it, it is too clear and obvious! I can imagine who you will bring!”;
• "Listen, you will probably get a kickback for this…";
• “Tell the truth: who paid you to defend this?”;
• “Do you really believe that this deputy will repair our road? And even if so, do you know how much money he will make from it? Then he will drive a new “Mercedes” for our hard-earned money! Don't even think to trust him!".

Ignorance​

The manipulator is always playing on our emotional strings, this is what I call the target of manipulation. And very often this string is the fear of appearing ignorant, inexperienced, incompetent or ignorant. We are very often afraid to admit that we do not know or do not understand something, we are embarrassed to show our ignorance. This is the basis of the manipulation, which the author of the book calls very simply: "Ignorance."
Examples:

• “Everyone has known for a long time that…”;
• "Yes, you read Wikipedia for a start, everything is written there…";
• "The well-known postulate of economic theory confirms my opinion.";
• “What can you say about the coefficient of determination? AND?";
• “You see, I'm definitely right here!”;
• “Well, you've probably read this book! This is a classic of business literature! All educated people read it! There it says the same thing. So I propose to accept my point of view ”;
• "I'm not sure if the validity you specified can be correlated, so you will have to change some of the metrics in the report."

You probably already understood that very often highly educated people use such manipulation. Complex terms, English words, incomprehensible abbreviations, scientific phrases, facts that are difficult to verify here and now - this is what is used when playing on ignorance and a sense of false shame. Thus, the manipulator additionally makes the victim believe in his superiority, this is a complicating factor in this manipulation. At the same time, the manipulator often uses such a tone and intonation, as if talking about the most elementary things.

"Why are your hands shaking?"​

Some manipulations represent a personal attack aimed not at a person's inner world, his experience, knowledge, actions or competencies, but at his appearance or behavior.
Here are just a few examples of this manipulation:

• “Why are your hands shaking? Are you afraid or what? ";
• “Why aren't you looking at me? Are you ashamed to look in your eyes?”;
• “Why are you jerking your foot all the time? Are you nervous? Are you uncomfortable?”;
• “Why are you scratching your eye all the time? Do you know that psychologists claim that this is a sure sign that a person is blatantly lying?";
• “You sit in a closed position all the time. I have a strong impression that you are insincere now".

 

[Hacker]

Methods of mass manipulation
Surprisingly, most individuals do not pay any attention to any manipulations made with them.
Despite the fact that it has so happened in modern society that we are daily forced to face numerous examples of manipulation.
Starting with manipulations of individuals, and ending with manipulations of individuals imprisoned in the masses.

1. Provocation of suspicion.
The manipulator initially puts the subject in critical conditions when it confidently puts forward a statement like: "Do you think I will persuade you?.. ", which implies the so-called reverse effect, when the person being manipulated begins to convince the manipulator of the opposite, and thus, by saying the installation several times, unconsciously tends to think that the individual who convinced him of something is honest. Whereas under all conditions, this honesty is false.

2. False advantage of the opponent.
The manipulator, by using certain words, seems to initially question his own arguments, referring to the supposedly more favorable conditions in which his opponent is located.
This, in turn, forces this opponent to justify himself in the desire to convince the partner and remove suspicion from himself. Thus, the one over whom the manipulation took place, unconsciously removes from himself any installation on censorship of the psyche, on defense, allowing attacks from the manipulator to penetrate into his defenseless psyche.
Manipulator's words that are possible in this situation: "You say that because your position requires it now…»

3. Aggressive manner of conversation.
When using such manipulations, a person who is interested in any influence on others takes an initially high and aggressive pace of speech, which unconsciously slams the opponent's will. Well, besides, in this case, the opponent cannot properly process all the information received. Which forces him to agree with the information from the manipulator, unconsciously also wanting all this to stop as soon as possible.

4. Imaginary misunderstanding.
In this case, a certain trick is achieved as follows. You, referring to finding out for you the correctness of what you just heard, repeat the words spoken to you, but making them the meaning you need.
Spoken words can be like: "Sorry, did I understand you correctly, you say that...", and then repeat 60-70% of what you heard from your opponent, but you distort the final meaning by entering other information, information that you need.

5. False compromise.
When you seem to accept and agree with the information received from the object of your manipulations, but also immediately make your own adjustments. According to the principle: "Yes, yes, everything is correct, but...".

6. Provocation.
By saying hurtful words in time, you provoke anger, rage, misunderstanding, resentment, and so on in the manipulated person with your ridicule, which makes them lose their temper and achieves the intended result.

7. Specific terminology.
In this way, you achieve an unconscious belittling of your opponent's own status, as well as the development of a sense of inconvenience in him, as a result of which he is too shy to ask the meaning of a particular term out of false modesty or self-doubt, which later gives you the opportunity to turn the situation in the right direction, referring, if necessary, to Well, belittling the status of the interlocutor in a conversation allows you to be in an initially advantageous position and achieve what you need in the end.

8. Using the false suspicion effect in your words.
By applying such a manipulative position, you initially put the other person in a defensive position. An example of the monologue used: "You think I will persuade you about something, convince you...", which already leads your opponent to want (need) to convince you that this is not so, that he is initially well disposed towards you, etc. Thus, he opens himself up to unconsciously agree with your words that will follow.

9. Link to the "greats".
Your use of quotations from the speeches of famous and significant people, the specifics of the foundations and principles adopted in society, and so on.
That is, you seem to create a belittling of the status of your opponent, they say, look, all respected and famous people say this, but you think quite differently, and who you are, and who they are, etc. - approximately a similar associative chain should unconsciously appear in the object of your manipulations, after which it, in fact, becomes this object.

10. Forming false stupidity and bad luck.
Statements like "this is banal, this is completely tasteless, and so on." should form the initial unconscious belittling of your chosen interlocutor's role, and form an artificial dependence on the opinions of others. What prepares the dependence of this individual and already in relation to you. This means that you can almost fearlessly promote your ideas through such a person, encouraging them to solve the problems you need.
In other words the ground for your manipulations is already prepared. Although, in fact, it is prepared by manipulations themselves.

11. Imposing thoughts.
In this case, by constantly or periodically repeating phrases, you teach the opponent to any information that you are going to convey to him.
The principle of advertising is based on such manipulation. When at first some information repeatedly appears in front of you (and regardless of your conscious approval or denial of it), and then, when an individual is faced with the need to choose a product, unconsciously from several types of goods of unknown brands, he chooses the one that he has already heard about somewhere.

12. Lack of proof, with hints of some special circumstances.
This is an example of quite successful manipulation through a special kind of ambiguity, forming in the individual acting as an opponent, false confidence in what was said, through unconscious speculation of certain situations. And when in the end it turns out that he "misunderstood", such an individual practically does not have any component of protest, because unconsciously he remains sure that he just really misunderstood. Thus, he is already forced to accept the conditions of the game imposed on him.
Even in the context of such a circumstance, it most likely makes sense to divide it into manipulation, taking into account both the unexpected for the object and the forced, when the object eventually understands that it has become a victim of manipulation, but is forced to accept them because it is impossible to conflict with its own conscience and some norms of behavior embedded in its psyche, based on

13. Imaginary inattention.
In this situation, the object acting as a manipulation falls into the trap of the manipulator, who plays on his own alleged inattention, so that later, after doing what he needs (having achieved his goal), he can refer to the fact that he allegedly did not notice (listened to) the protest from the opponent. And as a result of this, he already puts the opponent actually in front of the fact of what was done.

14. Belittling irony.
Somewhat similar to what we have already mentioned. As a result, the timely utterance of their own fabrications in the insignificance of their own status, as it were, forces the opponent to assert the opposite, thereby unconsciously elevating the manipulator.

15. Focus on the pros.
In this case, we are like Mapree:
We focus the conversation only on the pros, thereby promoting our idea, and ultimately achieving manipulation of the psyche of another individual, still pushing our idea.

 

[Hacker]

Manipulation of fears
Fear is one of the most powerful emotions. Absolutely everyone has their own phobias, each of us is afraid of something, and this fact speaks volumes. But the most important thing is that we can take advantage of this to our advantage.

Fear as a catalyst for humility
Throughout human existence, fear has ruled it. Fear of being killed, robbed, exiled, fear of the collapse of the country or change of the political regime. We can observe the latter according to the results of the last elections. In social networks before the elections, people actively commented on the posts with the words "Only for Putin" and so on. Even in spite of the obvious falsification, people, for the most part, still voted for GDP. And it's not that everyone is happy with it, they're just afraid of drastic changes. Is this not a prime example of fear management?

Various sects are another good example of influence through fear and competent recruitment. As a rule, people get there by accident. But if it nevertheless happens that a person finds himself in these circles, then we can say with almost 100 percent probability that he was persuaded to be afraid of something. As a rule, this is the fear of death. “Soon we will all die” or “Doomsday is near” are widespread slogans in various sects.

Application of fear in SE
Since the main goal of social engineering is information mining, it would be foolish not to take advantage of the victim's fear. Just how to create this fear? The most common technique is blackmail. And almost always it is the fear of spreading personal data or files (photos with intimate content, correspondence, etc.). Therefore, in the case of compromising data, you can easily achieve your goals (not only material ones).
To get what you want from a victim, as we already know, it is necessary to get his personal materials or information. After all, even if you know your personal phone number and address of residence, sometimes this may be enough. We all watched films where the maniac called the victim and said that he knew where she lived. And the woman on the other end of the line was ready to die, but only not to listen to it. Naturally, everything is exaggerated, but there is some truth in this.

How do I get valuable information?
The first source, as I wrote earlier, is social media profiles. You can always find interesting information there. We will not dwell on this point in detail.
The second source can be considered acquaintance and rubbing into the credibility of the object of blackmail, because in the process of communication you will learn much more than just by photo and location on Instagram. Intimate photos and videos are not the most interesting thing that you can get from the victim.
And the third, which is also the most difficult method, is surveillance. Where he lives, how he moves, with whom he communicates. It is difficult enough to go unnoticed and not attract attention during the pursuit. But any skill can be learned, if there is a desire. And still, this method cannot guarantee 100% complete information content. After all, if the victim is an introvert, then you will follow him along the same route: home-work-home.

Everyone needs their own approach
Everything matters. Psychotype, habits, character, even what kind of things the victim prefers to dress in. Study all these factors carefully and, most importantly, awaken fear in the person!

 

[Hacker]

Agitation and propaganda
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