It was the night of my Distinguished Young Women’s program that I realized manipulation is a big problem in today’s society. When someone is as gullible as I am, it is easy to fall for manipulation. Sometimes people may have psychological issues that are not noticeable until one knows that person better. I have learned to analyze situations more carefully and determine what manipulation is and what is not. On the night of February 28, I was preforming in the DYW program in Seminary. I had an unexpected visitor appear at the program. I had recently broken up with Ben, but he decided to come to my program without asking if it would be acceptable for him to be there. I did not notice Ben was there until almost the end of the program. When I caught …show more content…
Ben took several prescription medications with him so we would assume he would try to over dose. “If you are the good Christian person you claim to be, you need to save me.” Ben stated, trying to manipulate me. I tried contacting Ben’s mother, but she told me to leave her son alone. After this, I contacted my mother to help me handle this situation. She reassured me he was just manipulating me. Ben’s mother called the police in New Orleans so that Ben could not harm himself. “I hate you! How could you do this? I never want to speak to you again!” Ben exclaimed. “I am sorry, but I could not let you harm yourself.” I replied. Since this incident, I have been more careful to analyze situations. I am able to pick up on manipulation easier than before. Learning there are people that will manipulate you to attract attention has been a lesson learned for me. Many people feel the need to lie draw attention to themselves to feel special. Some people have serious psychological issues that one may not be aware of until later. Now, I do not always believe everything I am informed of. Manipulation and gullibility are not a good combination, but I have learned to be more careful from this
Summary – It is quite difficult to avoid any persuasive acts while resisting them at the same time. Being prepared with knowledge of how easy it is to be manipulated, controlled, seduced, etc. allows us to open up to the use of rhetoric.
The emotional state of any given person’s mind can determine the way in which they think, act, behave, or respond to any certain event. When used correctly, persuasion is a deadly weapon at the tip of your tongue, and it certainly can, and will, help you obtain your desired outcome. So, if anyone may not know, what do you truthfully use to manipulate the thoughts of others? Well, whether you are aware or not, your strategies more than likely fall under ethos, pathos, or logos, that of which, I would like to uncover in the speech of Margaret Sanger.
Have you ever been tricked or deceived? Have you ever been tricked into dating someone you like because you thought what you were told was true? In the book Much Ado About Nothing trickery and deceit is used a lot to get the characters to fall for one another even the ones who say they don’t love one another end up getting involved intimately with each other. For Example, trickery and deception takes place when Don Pedro tells Claudio that he will woo Hero for Claudio to marry her. Tricking her to believe that Don Pedro has feelings for Hero. Don Pedro says Claudio, I will assume thy part in disguise and tell fair Hero that I am Claudio, and in her bosom I’ll unclasp my heart, and take her prisoner with the force and strong encounter of
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The power of manipulation is a very powerful tool and can easily be misused to benefit
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manipulation which could lead to belief of something that may not be acted upon but
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...ad. Just as Hitler used his natural charisma to manipulate the masses of German to not only submit but to openly follow his ambitions to annihilate the entire Jewish population. Manipulation is the most hurtful type of deceit because the people we have manipulated feel used and abused by our apathy. Even if we do not realize we are manipulating someone we should take care to attempt to limit our manipulative tendencies.
of manipulation can not only be found in the personal lives of many believers, but
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Individuals involved in romantic relationships often send messages to one another with the intent to convey honest information about their romantic partner. Literature on this topic has already been published, but researcher Shuangyue Zhang found gaps and unanswered questions in this previously conducted research that he wanted to resolve. In 2009, Zhang began researching the hurtful, but honest messages that are sent and received in romantic relationships with two overlapping goals in mind. He wanted to uncover the “motivations and relational consequences of honest, but hurtful evaluated messages,” while simultaneously investigating “the relational satisfaction, sex of the respondent and message types” (Zhang, 2009). With his purpose in place, Zhang developed a hypothesis for his research that stated, “Recipients will interpret honest, but hurtful messages more negatively than will senders” (Zhang 2009). The subjects of Zhang’s study, 515 undergraduate students (32.4% male and 77.6% female) from Midwestern University, were given one of two different questionnaires, “one sender questionnaire and one receiver questionnaire,” and asked to “reconstruct a conversation” that they took part in that involved an honest, but hurtful evaluative message (Zhang, 2009). Participants were then given a scale and asked to rate the hurtfulness, emotional pain and alleged honesty of the message that they recoded (Zhang, 2009). At the conclusion of the study, Zhang measured and assessed the honesty motives, perceived intent and relational ramifications of the messages (Zhang, 2009). The study effectively conducted by Shuangyue Zhang in 2009 not only yielded findings in support of the hypothesis, but also revealed other findings. These other findings...
Deception is defined by Metts (1989) as an act that involves an intentional misrepresentation of information with the goal of persuading someone to believe something the deceiver knows to be false. There are many other definitions used throughout social psychology in the study of deception yet, no matter how broad and/or vague, they all have one common idea; deception is the intentional presentation of false information. Many people are brought up with the understanding that lying and deception are immoral acts yet such communication tactics are commonly used in everyday life for many different purposes. There have been many investigations into the subject of deception, the conclusion of which is that the absolute absence of deception is a