Every day we are faced with a manifestation of manipulation. A modern man is a manipulator, whoever he is, a vegetable seller who convinces us that vegetables are the tastiest and freshest, or a public figure who deftly convinces the public masses.
Manipulation can be a personality trait due, perhaps, to some kind of deficiencies in upbringing; the concealment of motives is also prompted by their unethicality and unacceptability in society. Many commercial transactions are involved in manipulation. Often, manipulation is of a sexual nature in order to bend to the will of the desired partner. Often, the behavior characteristic of the manipulator is associated with mental disorders.
The victim of a manipulator is usually a person who is naive, has little life experience, or is highly moral, himself guided in his actions by moral values. Sometimes certain character traits induce people to succumb to manipulation - compliance, indecision, conformity. The "risk group" is expanding at the expense of people who have suffered mental trauma, are in a difficult situation, suffering from somatic diseases, the elderly.
Effective counteraction to manipulation can be achieved, for example, through greater trust in oneself, in one's feelings and impressions. If, for all the ostentatious honesty of the manipulator, for all the persuasiveness of his reasoning that he can help, the potential victim nevertheless has a feeling of awkwardness and discomfort, she should certainly think about it - are they trying to manipulate her?
The exposed, exposed manipulator can himself become an object of manipulation - now by the failed victim.
