Daniel Spade - How To Analyze People: 13 Laws About the Manipulation of the Human Mind, 7 Strategies to Quickly Figure Out Body Language, Dive into Dark Psychology and Persuasion for Making People Do What You Want

How to Analyze People:

13 Laws About the Manipulation of the Human Mind, 7 Strategies to Quickly Figure Out Body Language, Dive into Dark Psychology and Persuasion for Making People Do What You Want

By

Daniel Spade

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Table of Contents

Introduction

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Have you ever walked into a confrontation feeling so sure of yourself, then walk out feeling confused, but with no valid reason why you would be convinced by the other person? Have you ever walked out of a conversation agreeing to do something for someone but could not identify why you agreed to it in the first place? Chances are, youve manipulated. Whether by playing on your emotions or through persuasive words, you were brought to believe in or act on something that you were not entirely agreeable to initially. You could be utterly convinced and so sure of yourself before you began the conversation but midway, you found yourself at a loss for words, confused, frazzled and disoriented.

Manipulation can feel like you are being controlled, and leave you doubting your own abilities. Being manipulated constantly can leave you frustrated, demoralized and despondent, wondering how you didnt see this coming. Could you have prevented it though, IF you knew just how to analyze the signs that indicate one someone may be up to no good?

Manipulators exercise their influence by exploiting your emotions and distorting your mental perceptions to control and gain benefits from you. They prey on your weaknesses and take advantage of you through communication strategies designed to distract you enough that you dont see what theyre up to until its too late. It is important to identify whether you are being manipulated to protect yourself from being taken advantage of, and facilitate a healthy balance of power in relationships. And it begins by learning how to analyze people.

One of the other ways to tell whether you are being manipulated is through body language. The powerful, unspoken and subtle cues that speak volumes when you know what to look out for. By recognizing the gestures, postures and facial expressions emitted, one can identify and understand the complete message of what someone is trying - or trying not - to say. Learning how to analyze another can yield some fascinating revelations, and more importantly, open your eyes to the signs that you may be taken advantage so you can take the steps to prevent or stop the advances completely.

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Chapter 1: 13 Laws of Manipulation

Would you believe that at every waking moment of your life, your mind is being manipulated or controlled in one way or another? Not necessarily always by someone you know either. Social media, online news content, the things you see and hear in traditional media, advertisements, conversations we see and hear at work or in our personal lives. Theyre all some form of manipulation or mind control, and most of the time, its happening without you even realizing it. Even what youre about to read throughout the next chapters in this book could be a form of manipulation that influences your thoughts to a certain extent.

Why though, is the human mind so susceptible to manipulation? Could it be that our mind is full of what is known as loopholes? Lets take a look at the Solomon Asch experiment which was conducted in 1957. This experiment on conformity was carried out by Asch in a series of psychological tests to reveal the degree to which an individuals opinions could be influenced by that of a group of people. The results, Asch discovered, were that with the right amount of peer pressure, people were willing to ignore the facts or reality that was in front of them and resort to giving a false or incorrect response just to conform to the rest of the group.

Before that, heres a quick question.

Do you see yourself as someone who is a non-conformist? Or a conformist? Most people believe that they can be just the right amount of non-conformist to stand up against others when they know they are right about something. A conformist, however, would prefer to blend in with the group. While most tend to believe theyre non-conformist, research would suggest otherwise, and that people might be more prone to conformity than they initially think.

Heres a quick test. Imagine youre now part of a psychology experiment with a group of several other people. Everyone is taking the same test where youre shown a series of oddly shapes images and asked what you can see when you look at the image. On some occasions, some participants unanimously declare they can see the exact same image, but when you look at the picture, youre seeing something entirely different. Youre the only one whos seeing it too. Every other participant in the room has the same unified answer. What would you do? Do you stand by what you can see? Or do you go ahead and declare the same answer the other participants are giving?

Thats precisely what the Asch conformity experiments aimed to discover. Conformity, which is a persons tendency to go along with the unspoken behavior or rules of a social group that they are a part of. Asch set out to discover with his experiments if people could be pressured into conforming, even if they knew that everyone else in the group was wrong. Asch main purpose of his experiment was to demonstrate just how powerful conformity could be in a group.

When Asch carried out his experiment, there were participants who were in on what was going on and pretending to be like all the other participants, along with those who were really unaware of what was taking place. Those who knew what was going on would behave in certain ways, and the aim was to see if their behavior was going to have any influence on the other participants. In each experiment that was carried out, there would be one naive participant who was placed with a group of the aware participants. There were 50 participants in the group, and everyone was told they would be taking part in some sort of vision test.