Effective Manipulation Tactic (Issue 2)

MANIPULATION TACTIC #1
Covert emotional manipulation tactics are underhanded methods of control. These deceptive tactics act to change your behavior and perceptions. Covert manipulation operates under the level of your conscious awareness.

Victims usually do not realize they are being manipulated while it is happening. (Tactics that are executed covertly)

One of the most effective tactics of covert manipulation are “Intermittent reinforcement.

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“The more infrequently the crumbs of love are offered, the more hooked you are. You become conditioned,
like a rat in a cage.”

Intermittent Reinforcement

Intermittent reinforcement is an extremely powerful and effective manipulation tactic. In fact, psychology experts consider it the most powerful motivator in existence.

• Using this tactic, the manipulator "motivates" the victim to behave, think or feel the way he or she wants them to.

Intermittent reinforcement occurs when a manipulator gives his victim positive reinforcement -- attention, praise, appreciation, affection, sex, adoration, declarations of love -- only on a random basis. They may give positive reinforcement in response to a behavior they are trying to increase, or they can withhold it to create uncertainty, anxiety and longing in the victim.

Intermittent reinforcement creates a climate of doubt, fear and anxiety that compels the victim to persistently seek acts of positive reinforcement from the manipulator that will alleviate their angst.

• When the reward of positive reinforcement is given, it is very powerful. It floods the brain with dopamine and other feel-good neurotransmitters and hormones. It creates addiction.

If you're a victim of this tactic, you will sense the manipulator is withdrawing. He or she is not giving you the attention and affection that they used to, and you will fear that something is wrong and that you are losing them. If you ask them if something is wrong, they will deny it. At some point the manipulator will act once again like the attentive, romantic, interested and loving person they once were. Your anxiety and doubt are relieved, and you are on top of the world. But then they withdraw again, and you are consumed with anxiety once more.

By using intermittent reinforcement the manipulator will have you riding an emotional roller coaster, your moods and emotional well-being dependent upon whether he or she is withholding from you or rewarding you.

The manipulator does this on purpose to increase his or her power and control over you and to make you ever more desperate for their love, attention or approval. You will have become the proverbial lab rat living for a randomly dispensed morsel. The rat thinks of nothing else, and either will you.

Your bond with the manipulator will become stronger in response to intermittent reinforcement, along with your desire to please them and your fear of losing them.

This is malicious manipulation at its worse. We will explore Intermittent reinforcement in more depth in our next post.

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