You need to know that there are a lot of methods of psychological influence (manipulation). Some of them are very difficult to learn, such as NLP, and some are easily used by most people in everyday life.
Even a very small child can show the makings of a manipulator. Seeking from his parents to fulfill his desires, he uses such measures of psychological influence as violent crying, hysterics, rolling on the floor. All this "performance" takes place in the presence of "spectators", for whom it is played. In solitude, the child's tantrum immediately stops. This suggests that he easily controls the expression of his emotions and applies them only when he needs it.
Having become older, the child tries to manipulate his peers. So, a girl who does not want her friends who came to visit her to touch her toys, warns them, for example, that the doll is sick, and the teddy bear bites. Thus, she achieves her goals without revealing their true motive - greed, which is not already approved in the children's community.
Of course, children's attempts at manipulation are quite transparent and do not pose a real danger to others. But adults, fully formed people also often resort to manipulations. Signs of this type of influence remain largely the same - hiding true motives, feigning expression of emotions. Moreover, the victim's conviction is added to this (and in the case of manipulation it is possible to speak of the victim) that the manipulator acts exclusively in her interests, although in reality it turns out just the opposite.
