Manipulation Dark Psychology to Manipulate and Control People

Analyzing Others
Along with empathy, using your self-analysis and lived experience to place
yourself in the shoes of others, you can also recognize the behavioral
patterns of other objectively.
The introduction to this chapter offers a nice summary. Here is an
opportunity to present the process of analyzing others in a more systematic
manner:
1. Begin by observing and recording every action that a person
takes. Provide yourself with as much data as possible.
Include every unusual mood, action, reaction and impulse.
2. Hypothesize obvious and suspected goals which that person
many possess.
3. Test their actions in relation to these goals. Try to understand
if the person is acting to achieve these goals, in which case
your hypothesized goals are correct, or if the actions and
your hypothesized goals fail to align, in which case you may
need to consider that the person is pursuing alternative goals.
4. Predict the actions of a person, based on their goals and the
behavioral patterns (patterns in the actions they take) you
observe. Specifically, when something unusual occurs, try to
predict how they will react. Analyze your success and
failures in prediction. Where you fail, try to understand why
the person reacted as they did, why you failed to predict that
and use it to inform your future predictions.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 ad infinitum, until you can accurately
predict the behavior of that person.
With this ability to predict the reaction of a person to a given event, it only
requires your creativity to reverse-engineer an event based on the reaction
you wish to produce. The event might be as simple and innocent as
mentioning a certain topic of conversation, revealing a piece of information
or thanking them for some work they’ve done.

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