Manipulation Dark Psychology to Manipulate and Control People

Cold Reading
Cold reading is the practice of analyzing a person on a first meeting, or
even a first glance. This is a particularly useful skill because it allows you
to manipulate someone even in a single meeting. If you can analyze
someone in a short space of time, to the extent where you can predict their
reactions to a stimulus, you only need to provide that stimulus in order to
achieve the desired result.
Everyone already cold reads, to a degree. Using stereotypes, it is common
and perfectly normal to form an opinion of someone based on their
appearance, including the clothes they wear, the look on their face, the
shape and size of their body, their accent, and even their ethnicity. The
problem is that cold reading tends to be fairly inaccurate. You cannot
guarantee anything about a person based simply on their appearance and
people are liable to surprise you.
Effective cold reading is going to take practice and data. Make predictions
about new people you meet, memorize them or quickly record them, if you
have an opportunity, and then test them as you find out more about a
person. Relate your findings back to your first impressions of someone and
consider if there was anything you could have spotted, which might have
given it away.

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Body Language
Body language is useful as both a source of information, and an approach to
manipulation. It can form a part of both deception and persuasion.
You have probably heard quotes like “body language makes up 55% of all
communication,” before. Although the number, “55%,” is actually pretty
useless, the message remains clear that body language is an important part
of the way people communicate to one another.
Considering the fact that body language is so important, it’s no surprise that
everyone is able to read body language and react to it, to some degree. On a
sub-conscious level, you can probably already understand when someone
disagrees with what you are saying, or is interested, or just wants to stop
talking to you altogether. These cues are intended to be understood –
without that, there would be no point to their existence.
However, there are important ways to read the body language of others,
which can help you to analyze their intentions, even when they are
attempting to deceive you.

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