This guilt-trip tactic, which highly manipulative people use, is especially harmful. "Such people like to remind you of your ...

Psychological fatigue is a common outcome of covert manipulation. Studies link emotional imbalance to increased stress and ...

Manipulators excel at twisting your emotions around and making you feel that you need to explain yourself, defend yourself, ...

Manipulative people rarely sound manipulative — in fact, they can often sound reasonable or even helpful at first. But ...

Ever been in a conversation that left you feeling weirdly guilty, confused, or questioning your own reality? Congrats – you might have just experienced the special joy of being manipulated.

The flickering gaslights in a 1944 film gave birth to what would become one of the most insidious forms of emotional abuse recognized today. In the classic thriller “Gaslight,” Ingrid Bergman portrays ...

Recent research has analyzed the benefits of manipulation in hopes of teasing out the differences between “harmless” manipulation and “harmful” manipulation. Most social interactions involve some form ...

The most powerful response is far more destabilizing to the manipulator's strategy: emotional non-cooperation. Calmly, ...

Could you be a covert manipulator and not know it? The answer is very possibly yes, according to Seth J. Gillihan, a psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy. In an intriguing post ...

The ten subtle but damaging tactics emotionally manipulative people use to shrink others, often without being overtly cruel ...

What happens when insecurity turns into manipulation? In this emotional story, an insecure husband pretends to be terminally ...