"Emotional manipulation" is when someone tries to control or influence other people's feelings and emotions in a secretive or dishonest way to get what they want.
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Parental alienation has been recognized by family rights advocates and parenting experts as a psychological and
emotional manipulation of a child.
The husband is on trial for historic child abuse and I am looking back and wondering if we should have realised that there was more than
just emotional manipulation going on.
The reality star said she is willing to help other families and raise awareness about the psychological and
emotional manipulation brought by alienation.
They may see on the surface that things appear OK as they tend to look more at physical than emotional abuse, even in the face of
severe emotional manipulation.
Some critics say Spielberg's films remain too filled with earthly pleasures, too stuffed with things that go bump in the night, too reliant
on emotional manipulation to command serious analysis.
He showed commendable humility in following the example of his superior, the priest, and keeping to the policy of nonintervention in circumstances of
profound emotional manipulation.
In announcing Doyle's death, R. R. Reno notes that he had to «overrule [his] severe fellow editors who feared Brian had edged too close to
schmaltzy emotional manipulation.»
Avoiding an online dating scam involves becoming resistant to
emotional manipulation through a combination of rules of thumb and ingrained good sense.
Rex Walls (Harrelson) drags his wife and kids cross country to escape debt, police and his own parents, internalizing and allowing some of his more dark secrets to manifest
into emotional manipulation and possible abuse.
As one of the most influential, popular, successful and important filmmakers of the past 40 years, Steven Spielberg has specialised in having audiences willingly submit to his
masterful emotional manipulation.
We all knew what Lincoln was going to be before we saw it: tub - thumping speeches, arm - waving Oscar - bait performances, soaring strings,
blunt emotional manipulation.
Yet, even with obvious plotting,
overt emotional manipulation and average performances, Levy's incarnation of the tale once told in an episode of The Twilight Zone is standard but spirited.
I think now we're starting to see exactly why Facebook's
emotional manipulation activities are a threat to democracy in line with the Oxford study's conclusion about computational propaganda.
Alienating parents were described by their adult children as using
emotional manipulation strategies such as withdrawal of love, creation of loyalty binds, and cultivation of dependency.
Holwick's experience as a longtime fashion model and feminist activist informs her work, often exploring themes of sexuality, power, and
emotional manipulation in femininity, feminism, and femininization.
Done with such subtlety and authenticity that it's much more than just emotional manipulation
Psychological control is the ability of the parent to hinder independence and autonomy of the child by
using emotional manipulation (e.g., guilt or shame inducing, love withdrawal), constrain, and invalidation (Ballash et al. 2006; Barber et al. 2005).
According to Gibraltar Chronicle, parental alienation is «the psychological and
emotional manipulation of a child» that aims to destroy the «loving relationship they once shared with a parent.»
Too many marketers rely on hyperbole, exaggerated claims and
emotional manipulation.
A notorious «
emotional manipulation» study showed that the company could make users feel better or worse by altering the contents of their News Feeds.
«Even though he didn't physically force me, it certainly was
an emotional manipulation,» McSally told the publication.
They don't want to go to church because it's obviously fake, based in
emotional manipulation, and a steaming pile of lies.
In fact, I've been pretty honest about how I am sadly intimidated by poverty, and I am wary of my privilege, and my perspective, and I am weary of sensationalism,
emotional manipulation.
The result is the same, and so is the method:
emotional manipulation.
They say that NPD households are one of the least researched because there's usually a code of silence in the family as a result of
emotional manipulation.
To make evangelical revivalism hipper or louder, he says, does not change the fact that it is still just «
emotional manipulation.»
Critics are calling
this emotional manipulation.
I am wary of Group Think and
emotional manipulation and spiritual manipulation because I've experienced — and committed the sin of — them all.