Sometimes, influences can improve the other person’s decision-making situation by leading her to believe, doubt, feel or pay attention to the right things.What matters in identifying manipulation is the intention of the person using it - whether the influence is being used to put the other person into a better or a worse position to make a decision.

When influence is persuasion

Influence is manipulative depending on how it is being used.If the manipulator attempts to get someone to adopt what the manipulator himself regards as wrong, it resembles lying. The liar tries to get you to choose a false belief or to make a mistake in what he thinks, feels, doubts or pays attention to.

When influence is manipulative

We are continually subject to manipulation. For instance:<ul><li>Gaslighting: It involves encouraging someone to doubt their own judgment and to rely on the manipulator's advice instead.</li><li>Guilt trips: Making someone feel overly guilty for failing to do what the manipulator wants him/her to do.</li><li>Peer pressure: Caring so much about the manipulator's approval that she/he will obey the manipulators' wishes.</li></ul>

Forms of manipulation

Manipulation often harms. Manipulative phishing and other scams make identity theft possible; manipulative social tactics can support unhealthy relationships.Manipulation is wrong because it involves immoral techniques. It means treating the other as mere objects and not as a rational being.

Manipulation

Calling someone manipulative is a criticism of that person's character. Saying that you have been manipulated is a complaint about having been treated badly. Manipulation is dodgy at best, and downright immoral at worst. But why is this? What's wrong with manipulation? Human beings influence each other all the time, and in all sorts of ways.

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