What psychological tricks and hacks are useful to know?

Manipulating people's minds is actually much easier than you think. There are a lot of cool and useful tips that you can easily test when communicating with others. After watching this video you will learn how to convince people that you are right, make them like you, easily get necessary information, and you will understand that in fact people are often quite predictable. So these are our 16 psychological tricks that you can use when communicating with people. 1. Reaction to an evasive response. Sometimes we don't like the answer to the question we ask and sometimes we just don't understand it. Instead of repeating the question, try to look into the eyes of who you are speaking with. It will make them feel uncomfortable and they will try to explain their answer. 2. Body language and gestures. The main purpose of this psychological trick is to embarrass the speaker to make them feel their own insignificance. Characteristic gestures of this type include Gun. Index fingers pointed upward, thumb is up, rest of your fingers form a fist. Icebreaker. Hands with fingertips that form a pyramid and are placed on the table. Porcupine. Fingers crossed, blade to the sides. Drumming with your fingers. An effective psychological trick designed to embarrass the interlocutor is a slightly repulsive handshake and all sorts of denying postures and gestures. There are two ways to protect against this psychological trick. Either to ask the interlocutor to explain their attack, their instructing or expressing impatient gestures or to take into account that this is only a psychological game. 3. Repeat one word. In the dialogue with the interlocutor, choose any word from their speech and every time they utter this word or any other word close to it, try to smile approvingly, nod or use other affirmative gestures. Surprisingly, your interlocutor will increasingly use the word to which you paid attention. 4. The illusion of freedom of choice. This is a long-standing trick, but it would be blasphemous to bypass it. The trick lies in the fact that instead of forcing or simply voicing a fact, you give your interlocutor the right to choose. Of course, the illusory right, but they are unlikely to think about it. For example, if you want your girlfriend to make dinner for you, ask her when she will do it, right now or in a couple of hours. Thus, you will give her a choice, although the choice has already been made. Waiters in restaurants often use this trick. Reaching the table, they ask what kind of wine do you want, white or red? You start to choose from the options offered, although you could have initially planned to order something completely different. 5. Mimic of suggestion. The task of this psychological trick is to confuse the interlocutor. Its arsenal includes the following techniques. Yawning, glances past the opponent, smirks, skeptical nodding, and other mimic ways of showing neglect to the interlocutor. The essence of this psychological trick is that as soon as the thoughts of the opponent begin to move in the right direction, the signs of disregard give way to benevolent attentiveness, and many interlocutors wishing to maintain comfortable communication make decisions that were not previously included in their plans. 6. Parental authority. If during a conversation your opinion is viewed with distrust, you can increase authority of the stated thought by saying that one of the parents has given you this very thought. People generally tend to trust parental advice because subconsciously, almost every one of us believe that parents always want the best for us. Coupled with the concept of parental wisdom, this method works almost flawlessly, so you will quickly manage to persuade a person to agree with you. 7. Correct posture for forming trust. This psychological trick is designed for both work and pleasure, so how to become more confident? If you want to look confident, you should take a correct posture. If you allow yourself to take more space, then you are likely to feel more confident. This can significantly improve your private life and help you move up the career ladder. 8. Angelic calm. Often, you yourself can provoke the interlocutor to mistreatment. Make a serious effort to stay calm. The feeling of anger in this case usually subsides quickly and, as a rule, this person will ask you to forgive them. 9. The imaginary relationship of souls. In order not to worry during an important exam or interview, imagine that the person is your friend whom you have not seen for a long time. This will help you calm down immediately and it will be much easier to answer the questions. 10. Distraction. Ask somebody a personal question of their opinion about something. During the response, the brain will be so busy that everything else will happen itself. In this situation, for example, most people will take anything out of your hands without thinking at all. 11. Mirroring gestures. Mirroring gestures, poses, or facial expressions will help you quickly gain trust of your interlocutor. Even if a person doesn't notice this, thanks to the familiar gestures, they subconsciously see themselves in you. And they usually like themselves. But the main thing here is to not overdo it. 12. Awkward pause. If you want to get an honest answer to the question and the interlocutor dodges, make a pause, just like good psychotherapists do. Be silent for a moment, continuing to look at your interlocutor. As a rule, the person becomes embarrassed and they seek to fill the pause. 13. Doubt and competence. Sometimes it is difficult to shake a person's confidence in their words. The ideal option to achieve this goal is to voice doubts about the competence of the interlocutor. This may cause them to doubt themselves and the things that they said. And proving something to a person who is unsure of themselves is quite simple. For example, if a dispute arose on the topic of economics, ask your interlocutor any sudden question on a related topic. Most likely they'll not be able to give a quick, clear answer. After that, they will be careful in their statements, since their confidence in their own knowledge will be doubted. 14. Total indifference. Life hack for those who always love to learn more. If a person shares with you some facts or tells you about a situation that interests you, try to put a mask of complete indifference to this information. Most often in such a situation, people unconsciously try, by any means, to convince a person that information really matters to them. That is what makes them tell facts that they never wanted to tell. This is inherent in the human psyche. If they do not believe you, or your information for some reason turned out to be uninteresting, you will try to prove your truth by any means, using all available knowledge, circumstances, facts, people, etc. 15. Response to kindness. For the Benjamin Franklin effect. The story tells that Benjamin Franklin once wanted to win over a man who didn't like him. This man was looking for a rare book, and Franklin had this book. Benjamin Franklin found out about this and lent him this rare book, and when it was returned to the owner, Benjamin simply thanked him. As a result, they became best friends. As Franklin said, the one to who you once did a good thing is ready to respond you with much more good than yours. 16. Broadcast self-confidence. If you decide to create an image of a self-confident person, you need to be able to correctly translate it not only with your appearance and your behavior, but also with your speech. In a conversation with a person, try not to use the expression such as, I think, it seems to me, I would, so to speak, and phrases of the like. Such content of your speech will only represent you in a negative light. These expressions emphasize your self-doubt, if there is one, and if there is no doubt, the ability to include junk words in your speech. When your interlocutor hears the above words, they can't take what you say seriously. Learn to speak confidently and use few words as possible in dialogue. By the way, if you suddenly catch someone on such a manipulation, know how to withstand with dignity. Just do not doubt your knowledge and capabilities, as well as do not doubt that you are right, in case you rely on facts, of course. Be sure to share this video with your friends. Subscribe and give us a like. Hit the bell button to be the first one who will see our new videos. Become a guru in every little thing.