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What to Expect from a Manipulator: 3 Behavioral Models – Research Results
18.11.2024 07:35
You shouldn't expect passionate love and devotion from a person who tends to manipulate the weaknesses of others.
When it comes to developing relationships, you should immediately think about troubles.
The journal Social Psychological and Personality Science published the results of studies in which scientists listed the consequences of such a connection.
Example one
According to scientists' observations, manipulators can neglect romantic feelings and agree to a date with a person they are not at all attracted to.
They would never agree to date such a person, but they would be happy to have lunch or dinner at his expense.
This behavior pattern concerns women.
Example two
Speaking specifically about men, they can involve women in sexual relations by initiating explicit correspondence and showing racy photos.
As a result, a woman may become a victim of blackmail if she does not notice the threat in time and enters into frank correspondence, warns the magazine Frontiers in Psychology.
Example three
Personality and Individual Differences writes that men and women who are prone to manipulation often expect sexual relations.
For them, it is simply a sexual act that does not reflect feelings and does not speak of devotion to the partner.
They are driven only by the desire to receive physical pleasure or the pursuit of other selfish goals.
Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence (or socio-psychological phenomenon) that is an activity aimed at changing the perception (or behavior) of other people using hidden, deceptive, violent tactics in the interests of the manipulator.
