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The emotional manipulation scale is a ten-item questionnaire developed in 2006 through factor analysis, primarily to measure one's tendency to use emotions to their advantage in controlling others. [25]
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Target the emotions: "[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect." Keep your message simple: "It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided…The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous."
In an effort to persuade you and play upon your emotions in order to get what they want, many of us have immediately spotted, or eventually spotted, the traits of a master manipulator ...
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time is a 2016 non-fiction book by Maria Konnikova.It explains the psychology of con artists and how fraudsters know how to manipulate human emotions.
Brainwashing was first published in hardcover format on 16 December 2004 by Oxford University Press, and again in paperback format on 24 August 2006.The book was "highly commended" and runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award, and also made it to the shortlist for the 2005 MIND "Book of the Year Award".
Emotional control is a term from literature on self-regulatory psychology and refers to "the ability to self-manage or regulate attitudes and feelings that directly affect participant receptiveness to, and implementation of, training activities."
Emotional blackmail typically involves two people who have established a close personal or intimate relationship (parent and child, spouses, siblings, or two close friends). [4] Children, too, will employ special pleading and emotional blackmail to promote their own interests, and self-development, within the family system.