Dark Psychology — Manipulation

In the case of a newborn baby, the very first thing it learns how to do in order to survive is to cry. By crying, they trigger their mother to come and take care of their needs. They learn this extremely quick, and it is a normal behavior. It is also a form of manipulation. One can say that humans are specifically designed to manipulate one another because communication is conveying a message to another person to get some outcome that we desire. This doesn’t mean that it’s bad, as long as the outcome is either beneficial or neutral to both parties.

It’s the dark manipulation that is the bad manifestation. This manipulation is the kind that one person uses to gain leverage over another person. Basically, one person’s gain comes at another person’s misfortunes. This type of manipulation is the kind that truly gives the term a bad name. Psychopaths, narcissists, and deceitful people thrive on the bad manifestation, which can leave targets devastated in the aftermath.

Manipulation used in Dark Psychology will be insidious.

Aggressors will target an individual with very subtle communication. It will be in the form of an innocuous message that makes sense to the target specifically because they have the context of the message. They understand the subtext that is invisible to anyone else. To everyone else it will be completely invisible, but to…