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|quote=As a professor of electrical engineering who contributed a great deal to WP, I would like to suggest that the members of the APS have a rather unique function to play there. My experience with WP has been fine on very technical matters, but on subjects with popular appeal there are very active and peculiar Talk page discussions that in my case led to eventual expulsion from WP. My take is that there are some rather [[Disturbed character|disturbed individuals]] that run WP via ArbCom and the cadre of Administrators. I wonder if possibly APS members will be able to devise a useful method to deal with this major defect of WP, which I suspect indeed will raise its head.

|quote=As a professor of electrical engineering who contributed a great deal to WP, I would like to suggest that the members of the APS have a rather unique function to play there. My experience with WP has been fine on very technical matters, but on subjects with popular appeal there are very active and peculiar Talk page discussions that in my case led to eventual expulsion from WP. My take is that there are some rather [[Disturbed character|disturbed individuals]] that run WP via ArbCom and the cadre of Administrators. I wonder if possibly APS members will be able to devise a useful method to deal with this major defect of WP, which I suspect indeed will raise its head.

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*'''Minimization/Minimizing'''. The manipulators use this tactic to convince victims and others that something manipulators did that was evidently wrong really wasn’t as bad as one might think. When being confronted about their wrongdoing, manipulartors would claim victims are making a big deal of nothing or exaggerating or overreacting.<ref>{{cite book |title=30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships |author=Adelyn Birch |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2015 |chapter=3. 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics |pages=23 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Jz7jgEACAAJ}}</ref>   

*'''Minimization/Minimizing'''. The manipulators use this tactic to convince victims and others that something manipulators did that was evidently wrong really wasn't as bad as one might think. When being confronted about their wrongdoing, manipulartors would claim victims are making a big deal of nothing or exaggerating or overreacting.<ref>{{cite book |title=30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships |author=Adelyn Birch |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2015 |chapter=3. 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics |pages=23 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Jz7jgEACAAJ}}</ref>   

*'''Lying''' refers to situation when a speaking person is using language aiming to deliberately portray reality in discrepancy with its actual status. Cunning form of lying is manipulation as type of social influence when a manipulator wants, without being noticed as doing so, to change the way other people think, behave, or act. In order to achieve this, he associates terms, in reality representing one thing, with false labels that try to make appearance of term as if being other thing. When this technique is used by politicians or [[pressure group]]s  promoting their own self-serving agendas, we speak about [[propaganda]].<ref name="Kuby">{{cite book

*'''Lying''' refers to situation when a speaking person is using language aiming to deliberately portray reality in discrepancy with its actual status. Cunning form of lying is manipulation as type of social influence when a manipulator wants, without being noticed as doing so, to change the way other people think, behave, or act. In order to achieve this, he associates terms, in reality representing one thing, with false labels that try to make appearance of term as if being other thing. When this technique is used by politicians or [[pressure group]]s  promoting their own self-serving agendas, we speak about [[propaganda]].<ref name="Kuby">{{cite book

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}}</ref> For example, LGBTI propagandists Kirk and Madsen admitted to use ''“manipulability”'' in form of attaching culturally [[Gleichschaltung#The most frequent terms in LGBTI gleichschaltung|positive-sounding verbal labels]] to mask controversial sexual behavior and sexual anarchy generally known under the term sodomy.<ref name="Cupelian2005">{{cite book |title=The Marketing of Evil: How radicals, elitists, and pseudo-experts sell us corruption disguised as freedom |author=David Cupelian |publisher=WND Books |year=2005 |pages=24–5 |isbn=978-1-58182-459-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQpXAAAAYAAJ }}</ref> Journalist Masha Gessen admitted on behalf of so-called "[[LGBT]]" activists that ''"Fighting for [[gay marriage]] generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie."''<ref name="Reilly2014">{{cite book |title=Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything |author=Robert R. Reilly |publisher=Ignatius Press |place=San Francisco |pages=64 |isbn=978-1-58617-833-8 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-JTobNH80}}</ref> Pathological lying and manipulation are typical to [[psychopath]]s. What makes psychopats different from all others is the remarkable ease with which they carry it out.<ref>{{cite book |title=Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us |author=Robert D. Hare |publisher=Guilford Press |place=New York and London |year=2011 |pages=125 |isbn=9781606235782 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1606235788}}</ref>       

}}</ref> For example, LGBTI propagandists Kirk and Madsen admitted to use ''“manipulability”'' in form of attaching culturally [[Gleichschaltung#The most frequent terms in LGBTI gleichschaltung|positive-sounding verbal labels]] to mask controversial sexual behavior and sexual anarchy generally known under the term sodomy.<ref name="Cupelian2005">{{cite book |title=The Marketing of Evil: How radicals, elitists, and pseudo-experts sell us corruption disguised as freedom |author=David Cupelian |publisher=WND Books |year=2005 |pages=24–5 |isbn=978-1-58182-459-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQpXAAAAYAAJ }}</ref> Journalist Masha Gessen admitted on behalf of so-called "[[LGBT]]" activists that ''"Fighting for [[gay marriage]] generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie."''<ref name="Reilly2014">{{cite book |title=Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything |author=Robert R. Reilly |publisher=Ignatius Press |place=San Francisco |pages=64 |isbn=978-1-58617-833-8 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-JTobNH80}}</ref> Pathological lying and manipulation are typical to [[psychopath]]s. What makes psychopats different from all others is the remarkable ease with which they carry it out.<ref>{{cite book |title=Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us |author=Robert D. Hare |publisher=Guilford Press |place=New York and London |year=2011 |pages=125 |isbn=9781606235782 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1606235788}}</ref>       

*Denial

*Denial

*'''Selective Inattention''' (or '''Selective Attention''') [[Disturbed character]]s are good at seeing only what they want to see and hearing only what they want to hear. Stanton Samenow referred to their habit of paying highly selective attention as ''“mental filtering”'' or ''“paying attention only to what suits him.”'' ''“Tuning-out”'' someone who’s trying to make a point, teach a lesson, or call attention to a problem is a principal way that the disordered character resists internalizing the values, standards, and controls society wants him to adopt.<ref>{{cite web |title=Selective Listening and Attention: Hearing What You Want to Hear as a Manipulation Tactic |author=George Simon |publisher=CounsellingResource.com |date=March 30, 2009 |url=http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/03/30/selective-listening/ |accessdate=17 April 2016}}</ref>  

*'''Selective Inattention''' (or '''Selective Attention''') [[Disturbed character]]s are good at seeing only what they want to see and hearing only what they want to hear. Stanton Samenow referred to their habit of paying highly selective attention as ''“mental filtering”'' or ''“paying attention only to what suits him.”'' ''“Tuning-out”'' someone who's trying to make a point, teach a lesson, or call attention to a problem is a principal way that the disordered character resists internalizing the values, standards, and controls society wants him to adopt.<ref>{{cite web |title=Selective Listening and Attention: Hearing What You Want to Hear as a Manipulation Tactic |author=George Simon |publisher=CounsellingResource.com |date=March 30, 2009 |url=http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/03/30/selective-listening/ |accessdate=17 April 2016}}</ref>  

*Rationalization

*Rationalization

*'''Diversion'''. Manipulator not giving a straight answer to a direct question and instead being diversionary, dodging the issue, giving "runaround" and steering the conversation away onto another subject.

*'''Diversion'''. Manipulator not giving a straight answer to a direct question and instead being diversionary, dodging the issue, giving "runaround" and steering the conversation away onto another subject.

*Shaming

*Shaming

*'''Playing the Victim role''' – Manipulator portrays him- or herself- or themselves as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.<ref name="Simon"/> Advocates of LGBT ideology play the victim role wrt. devised circumstance that they were "[[Ideomotor_effect#People_supposedly_.E2.80.98born_that_way.E2.80.99|born that way]]" <ref name="HHH2017">{{cite book |title=The Health Hazards of Homosexuality

*'''Playing the Victim role''' – Manipulator portrays him- or herself- or themselves as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.<ref name="Simon"/> Advocates of LGBT ideology play the victim role wrt. devised circumstance that they were "[[Ideomotor_effect#People_supposedly_.E2.80.98born_that_way.E2.80.99|born that way]]" <ref name="HHH2017">{{cite book |title=The Health Hazards of Homosexuality

​What the Medical and Psychological Research Reveals |author=12. Brian Camenker et al. |publisher=MassResistance |place=Waltham, MA |year=2017 |chapter=2. Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Health Issues |pages=23 |isbn=978-15399-83811 |url=http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info }}</ref> and wrt. people who dare to bring attention to risky aspects of "LGBT: lifestyle. The legitimate critics of sexual anarchy are then labeled as "[[homophobia|homophobe]]s", what is a term specially invented to vilify opponents and put them on the defensive, and at the same time trying to win public opinion in favor of [[homosexual agenda|"LGBT" agenda]]. During the era of [[Nazism]] followers of nazi ideology where portrayed as minority victim fighting for "[[equality]]" i.a. in [[Czechoslovakia]], while at the same time they in fact organized [[pogrom]]s against other minorities, esp. [[Jews]].     

What the Medical and Psychological Research Reveals |author=12. Brian Camenker et al. |publisher=MassResistance |place=Waltham, MA |year=2017 |chapter=2. Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Health Issues |pages=23 |isbn=978-15399-83811 |url=http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info }}</ref> and wrt. people who dare to bring attention to risky aspects of "LGBT: lifestyle. The legitimate critics of sexual anarchy are then labeled as "[[homophobia|homophobe]]s", what is a term specially invented to vilify opponents and put them on the defensive, and at the same time trying to win public opinion in favor of [[homosexual agenda|"LGBT" agenda]]. During the era of [[Nazism]] followers of nazi ideology where portrayed as minority victim fighting for "[[equality]]" i.a. in [[Czechoslovakia]], while at the same time they in fact organized [[pogrom]]s against other minorities, esp. [[Jews]].     

*'''Vilifying the Victim''' is i.a. the tactic ''"to get tough with remaining opponents"'' adopted by radical extremists who support [[totalitarian]] [[gay agenda|LGBTI agenda]]. In their [[LGBT]]I [[Mein Kampf]] called [[After the Ball]], they claim: ''"To be blunt, they [i.e. remaining opponents] must be vilified"''. [[Disturbed character]]s know well that [[Neuroticism|neurotic]]s hate to think of themselves as the injuring party and would rather carry the burden of abuse than see themselves as an abuser. So, when  persons with disturbances of character want to take advantage, a good one-two punch is to play the victim and then vilify the real victims,<ref name="Vilifying"/> for example, with labeling latter ones as “[[homophobic]]”. These behaviors often serve to reinforce the disturbed character’s resistance to accepting social norms and responsibility (for example in the area of sexual moral), as well as serving as vehicles of manipulation and impression-management,<ref name="Vilifying">{{cite web |title=Vilifying the Victim: Manipulating You by Making You Feel Like the Bad Guy |author=George Simon |publisher=CounsellingResource.com |date=March 23, 2009 |url=http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/03/23/vilifying-the-victim/ |quote=Neurotics hate to think of themselves as the injuring party and would rather carry the burden of abuse than see themselves as an abuser. Disturbed characters know this well. So, when they want to take advantage, a good one-two punch is to play the victim and then vilify the real victim. I’ve been posting a series of articles on behaviors commonly displayed by persons with disturbances of character. These behaviors often serve to reinforce the disturbed character’s resistance to accepting social norms and responsibility, as well as serving as vehicles of manipulation and impression-management. In a prior post, I explained the tactic of “Playing the Victim.” (See “Playing the Victim”.) A related tactic sometimes used in combination with the tactic of playing the victim is the tactic of vilifying the victim. |accessdate=30 April 2016}}</ref> (e.g. when trying to gain public acceptance for patterns of deviant behaviours bordering with and triggering the sexual anarchy).

*'''Vilifying the Victim''' is i.a. the tactic ''"to get tough with remaining opponents"'' adopted by radical extremists who support [[totalitarian]] [[gay agenda|LGBTI agenda]]. In their [[LGBT]]I [[Mein Kampf]] called [[After the Ball]], they claim: ''"To be blunt, they [i.e. remaining opponents] must be vilified"''. [[Disturbed character]]s know well that [[Neuroticism|neurotic]]s hate to think of themselves as the injuring party and would rather carry the burden of abuse than see themselves as an abuser. So, when  persons with disturbances of character want to take advantage, a good one-two punch is to play the victim and then vilify the real victims,<ref name="Vilifying"/> for example, with labeling latter ones as “[[homophobic]]”. These behaviors often serve to reinforce the disturbed character's resistance to accepting social norms and responsibility (for example in the area of sexual moral), as well as serving as vehicles of manipulation and impression-management,<ref name="Vilifying">{{cite web |title=Vilifying the Victim: Manipulating You by Making You Feel Like the Bad Guy |author=George Simon |publisher=CounsellingResource.com |date=March 23, 2009 |url=http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/03/23/vilifying-the-victim/ |quote=Neurotics hate to think of themselves as the injuring party and would rather carry the burden of abuse than see themselves as an abuser. Disturbed characters know this well. So, when they want to take advantage, a good one-two punch is to play the victim and then vilify the real victim. I’ve been posting a series of articles on behaviors commonly displayed by persons with disturbances of character. These behaviors often serve to reinforce the disturbed character’s resistance to accepting social norms and responsibility, as well as serving as vehicles of manipulation and impression-management. In a prior post, I explained the tactic of “Playing the Victim.” (See “Playing the Victim”.) A related tactic sometimes used in combination with the tactic of playing the victim is the tactic of vilifying the victim. |accessdate=30 April 2016}}</ref> (e.g. when trying to gain public acceptance for patterns of deviant behaviours bordering with and triggering the sexual anarchy).

*Playing the Servant Role

*Playing the Servant Role

*Seduction

*Seduction

There are several tricks on the level of non-verbal communication aiming to gain dominance and evoke the feelings of guilt or anger.  For example, it is possible to use ''long and quizzical glance'' focused onto eyes of other person what is in normal communication subconsciously perceived as unnatural. When given target person after some while decides to look to the side out of politeness, it naturally causes one to experience submissive emotion, which can be then misused by manipulator for introducing the uneven dominance into communication.  

There are several tricks on the level of non-verbal communication aiming to gain dominance and evoke the feelings of guilt or anger.  For example, it is possible to use ''long and quizzical glance'' focused onto eyes of other person what is in normal communication subconsciously perceived as unnatural. When given target person after some while decides to look to the side out of politeness, it naturally causes one to experience submissive emotion, which can be then misused by manipulator for introducing the uneven dominance into communication.  

The second possible technique is ''to stage a failed greeting attempt'' or other similar ''defaming incident''. It is very effective, in presence of witnesses, to stretch out a hand for farewell-shaking exactly in the moment when other person is turning backwards due to being just about to leave, thus having no chance for noticing and reacting, what is then implicitly interpreted as greeting refusal and impoliteness. It also serves its purpose in such moment to look around and get confirmed that others have noticed this “incident” and with pretended interest and contrite grimace let others know how this untactful refusal hurts and how one’s feel sorry for that.   

The second possible technique is ''to stage a failed greeting attempt'' or other similar ''defaming incident''. It is very effective, in presence of witnesses, to stretch out a hand for farewell-shaking exactly in the moment when other person is turning backwards due to being just about to leave, thus having no chance for noticing and reacting, what is then implicitly interpreted as greeting refusal and impoliteness. It also serves its purpose in such moment to look around and get confirmed that others have noticed this “incident” and with pretended interest and contrite grimace let others know how this untactful refusal hurts and how one's feel sorry for that.   

When we meet a person that is a disguised manipulator for first time, it might be easy to get impressed by his/her charity and seeming friendship, which would however last only until the first moment when we express our independent opinion different of his/her own or when we do something what is not up to his/her expectations.

When we meet a person that is a disguised manipulator for first time, it might be easy to get impressed by his/her charity and seeming friendship, which would however last only until the first moment when we express our independent opinion different of his/her own or when we do something what is not up to his/her expectations.

==See also==

==See also==

*[[Essay: Psychological manipulation in the Bible|Case study: Naboth’s Vineyard]]

*[[Essay: Psychological manipulation in the Bible|Case study: Naboth's Vineyard]]

*[[Behavioral therapy]]

*[[Behavioral therapy]]

*[[Emotional manipulation]]

*[[Emotional manipulation]]