Surely you have had stories when you did not at all what you originally intended. For example, they left the store with an unnecessary purchase. Resolutely began the conversation about parting and ended it with a kiss of truce. They came to the meeting with their opinions, and they went out with someone else's. If so, then you are not by hearsay acquainted with psychological pressure. About what it is, who of us is inclined to be manipulated, and what are the ways of psychological pressure on a person, we'll talk today.
The provision of psychological pressure - is the impact on certain points of the human nature, manipulation of another person in order to control someone else's behavior. The best target for such manipulators are people who are hypocritical, prone to self-flagellation and / or self-sacrifice, not sure of their abilities.
Methods and techniques of psychological pressure on a person
- use of guilt. This is the most common form of psychological pressure in the family: when a husband reproaches you for giving too much time to a career, parents get what they want by reminding them of their fragile health, children accuse you of permanent employment, etc. In this case, you need to understand yourself, a person presses on the point that is most painful for you;
- suggestion and repetition. The best example is advertising. Experts in advertising know perfectly well how to exert psychological pressure on a person: repeat, repeat, repeat ...
- method of rhetorical questions. These offensive rhetorical questions, on which, on the one hand, it seems useless to answer, but on the other ... silence can be accepted for consent. For example: "how can you be so slow-witted", "you know how you let us down", etc .;
- direct threats. This is a purposeful psychological pressure based on threats or blackmail;
- psychological attack. At the moment of pondering the situation, calls, reminders, conversations with the request to take the necessary decision are falling on you;
- false disinterest. Women do not know how sometimes male indifference acts on men.
It should be noted that the provision of psychological pressure is not always deliberate. Only a few think through tactics of behavior, as a rule, manipulation takes place on an intuitive level.