manipulation
Type of social influence that seeks to change others' perceptions or behaviour by underhanded, deceptive or exploitative means
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Also known as manipulation in psychology · emotional manipulation · control by others (psychology) · manipulation of others (psychology) · psychological manipulation · Manipulation (psychology)
- Subclass of
- social influence
2
Sources- 1.Stated in APA Dictionary of Psychologydictionary.apa.org/manipulationRetrieved 2026-10-21
- 2.Stated in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy“The Ethics of Manipulation”plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/Retrieved 2026-10-21
- social influence
Overview
All data
48 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Different from
- conditioning
- persuasion
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Sources- 1.Stated in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy“The Ethics of Manipulation”plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/Retrieved 2026-10-21
- Has characteristic
- selfishness nature of statement: mainly
- intention
- Partially coincident with
- intimidation
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Sources- 1.Stated in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy“The Ethics of Manipulation”plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/Retrieved 2026-10-21
- anti-social behaviour
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Sources- 1.“A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Manipulation”Retrieved 2026-10-21
- 2.Stated in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy“The Ethics of Manipulation”plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/Retrieved 2026-10-21
- psychological abuse
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- intimidation
On other databases
21 identifiers linking manipulation across the web's reference databases
- BabelNet ID01793376n
- BBC Things IDeea95cf5-9473-4958-8a7f-e47248f4dbbb
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID133192768
- FAST ID1007738
- Freebase ID/m/080b0qf
- GND ID4037348-4
- IMDb keywordpsychological-manipulation
- J9U entity ID987007529855905171
- KBpedia IDPsychologicalManipulation
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh87001884
- Library of Congress ClassificationBF632.5
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)508959311
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX546625
- NL CR AUT IDph122611
- OpenAlex IDC2994023599
- PSH ID8564
- Quora topic IDManipulation
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID16265-5
- SVKKL authority ID0236587-manipulace-psychologie
- Yale LUX IDconcept/9b525940-b0a9-406b-b7ff-9c05f0d29b0a
- YSO ID5616