Manipulation in psychology is a behavior designed to exploit, control, or otherwise influence others to one's advantage.
People who manipulate others attack their mental and emotional sides to get what they want. The person manipulating — called the manipulator — seeks to create an imbalance of power, and take advantage of a victim to get power, control, benefits, and/or privileges at the expense of the victim.
Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the behavior or perception of others through abusive, deceptive, or underhanded tactics. By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at another's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive.
These are people who habitually engage in cunning, calculating, and conniving behavior. Master manipulators are Machiavellians, or “High Machs,” as I previously explained.
There are a ton of manipulations far stronger such as Paradox Manipulation, Concept Manipulation and Meta Power Manipulation, which was stated by Yagworm to be the most powerful.
The user can manipulate intelligence, one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving. They can enhance it, reduce it, or even transfer it.
Manipulation is generally considered a dishonest form of social influence as it is used at the expense of others. Manipulative tendencies may derive from personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, or antisocial personality disorder.
Chronic manipulation in close relationships may also be a sign emotional abuse is taking place, which in some cases, can have a similar effect to trauma—particularly when the victim of manipulation is made to feel guilty or ashamed. Victims of chronic manipulation may: Feel depressed. Develop anxiety.
Neuroscience and psychology researcher Abigail Marsh has studied psychopaths for 15 years. She said the main difference between a manipulative lover and a true psychopath is their ability to feel fear. On the surface, the two may appear similar, but psychopaths don't have the ability to feel emotional or physical fear.
ENFJ. ENFJs take the crown for the most manipulative personality type. ENFJs have high emotional intelligence and strong intuition. These combined make them very good at reading people and understanding their needs.
While we are all susceptible to manipulation, if you are insecure, overly nice, or worry a lot about what other people think, you may be an easy target. The reason manipulation feels bad is because it feels like you're being pushed or tricked into something you didn't really choose or want to do.
There are many ways to use dark psychology in politics, but some of the most common uses include playing on fears, exploiting vulnerabilities, brainwashing, and creating divisions. Dark psychology can be used to manipulate people's emotions and get them to act against their best interests.
Any time someone uses threats to force or convince you to do something, it's considered emotional manipulation. This could include threats to leave you or take away something important if you don't comply with what they want you to do. This could even include a threat to hurt themselves.
People manipulate others to get what they want. This type of behavior may have a number of causes including interpersonal dynamics, personality characteristics, a dysfunctional upbringing, attachment issues, or certain mental health conditions.
The Charming Manipulator
They love action and excitement (instead of intimacy), with all the gusto of life, and have a need for external stimulation. They may dress to seduce, shock or impress. Their childhood message was most likely that in order to be Ok you need to be one step ahead of others.
Using manipulation for positive change
Positive manipulation is also used by non-profit organisations and ethical companies to persuade people to act, thereby helping others in need and promoting positive change in the world.
The user can manipulate the innocence of a person, making someone innocent of anything or undoing the innocence of someone, or toning it down so that there may be some bad things the target could do.