PSYCHOLOGY FACTS

Mental Manipulation

1. use the reciprocation rule-do a favour for someone, so they feel the need to do a favour for you.

2. use the reasoning that follows cognitive dissonance to your advantage. Wait for the right situation and employ your power of persuasion.

3. more often than not. if one appears to be of authority, an authority will be given to them.

4. indicators that trigger a commanding role: presence (looks figure style), economic capability, social fluidity with both sexes, and intellectual capability.

5. when trying to manipulate over a long time it is easier to fill a family position: brother, sister mother, father, etc. this will assist in gaining their trust and them letting their guard around you.

6. when manipulating the other sex, subtly flatter them until you have gained enough trust to be allowed access to their life.

7. making someone believe you sympathize with them often makes for a simpler manipulation.

8. take advantage of the men's need to confirm, even to something considered wrong. Note the ASCH conformity experiments.

9. often, it is easier to sway a person to agree with your views if you speak quickly (aproximently 195 words a minute).

10. repetition is the easiest and widespread methods of swaying people to a specific viewpoint.

11. using the door-in-the-face technique is an effective way to gain competence to a request. first, make an extremely large request that the respondent will obviously turn down; they will be more than to accede to the second more reasonable request- the one that was desired originally.

12. studies show that a woman is more trustworthy when they wear makeup then ones who don't. but wearing too much makeup has the opposite effect.

13. people who have recently induced caffeine are easier to influence than people who have not.

14. woman who put in a great deal of time to get ready and do makeup wish to feel wanted. to get her listening simply underestimate her just a little bit then follow shortly after with an 'i was wrong about you'

15. be aware of if you person is a 'thinker' or a 'feeler', and target your message accordingly. people who regard the world on cognitive terms are easier to manipulate if the message is framed in the terms of thinking, while people who think the world on an emotional level are easier to manipulate when framed around feel.

16. people will be more likely to do you favours if you make more physical platonic contact with them. Note the word platonic. Unless they are attracted to you flirtatious behaviour will make them aloof.

17. when attempting to gain information from someone it is best to imply familiarity.

18. people who are new to any job are desperate to please.

19. a person's moral compass can be manipulated using magnetic waves. A study in which they pointed a magnetic wave behind the right ear of volunteers to test that the "back right" part of the brain is responsible for telling right from wrong. The participants who had their moral centres magnetized demonstrated an impaired ability to tell the difference between right and wrong. Their morality wiped in half a second. Subjects were especially willing to accept immoral situations as long as there was a "happy" outcome that justified the immoral means.

20. people will say things that you want to hear to be able to get you where they want you.