Psychology Tricks
Psychology is the study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context and also can be said the mental characteristic or attitude of a person or a group.
Here are a few psychological tricks that’s been played on you and how you can use them too to manipulate others.
1) Silence is golden
If you ask someone a question and they give you a partial answer, maintain eye contact and keep silent. Retaining eye contact will communicate that you are interested and enhances rapport. You will eventually get the whole answer. People keep on explaining if they think their answer is not enough. It will put a small amount of pressure on them.
This especially works when people try to lie to you. If you keep quiet they try to fill it up with endless chatter so it won’t get awkward and to out hear the sound of their heart beating when they’re not telling the truth. If they’re uneasy with the presence of silence, it’s because they don’t feel secure with how they truly feeling.
2) Stop feeling anxious or nervous
When you find yourself in situations which can be stressful or can make you anxious, the best way to handle them is to chew gum. Chewing gum makes your brain think that you are eating and that there’s no danger. That’s why, your brain will start feeling relaxed
Andrew Scholey, a professor of behavioural and brain sciences at Swinburne University in Melbourne, showed that gum chewing reduced the stress hormone cortisol in study participants and reported feeling less stressed and more alert.
3) Who likes who?
When in a group and everybody is having a laugh, try to notice who is looking at who while laughing. When laughing, people tend to instinctively look at the person they feel (or want to feel) closest to.
4) Keep your calm at all cost
When a person is trying to argue with you, stay calm and don’t return the same feelings. The person may become even angrier when you do this, but what you are doing is in fact training them to lose the tantrums.
In a way they would feel bad by shouting at you when you’re trying to respond maturely. They become tired of fighting against themselves when what they want to do is fight against you. Since you’re not responding, it makes them realize there is no use of the raising their voice to convey a point. They will instead start to talk calmly over time.
5) Accepting your flaws
Try this, when people insult you or bring you down, agree with them or compliment them. Usually the one that are giving out negativities feel insecure about themselves or they’re mad at themselves and they’re letting it out to others is a way to let out the anger.
Say they told you you’ve gained weight, AGREE with them. Even if they continue to let you down, just agree. They tend to stop after a while because you’re not threatened by them.
6) The way you act is the way you feel
Our emotions come with physical effects, and these physical expressions are triggered by the emotions we’re feeling. The good thing is this can be turned around. So if you want to start feeling happy, start smiling a lot.
Research says that the brain naturally inclines to think negatively as a defensive mechanism. The act of a smile helps the mind move to a more positive area. Once the smiling muscles in our face contracts, it give a positive feedback loop that goes back to our brain and makes you feel automatically joyful.
7) Brilliance is confidence
Many people can’t tell brilliance from confidence. If you look as if you know what you are doing, then people will automatically think that you are the best at it. Act confident and see them rally around you.
This really works. Some people come across low self-esteem and the best way to beat it is just to play confidence. Trick is by making people think you’re confident, it actually tricks your brain to be more poised.
8) Let them see how they look like
If you work in customer service, try to install a big mirror behind you. People will be automatically nicer, as they feel less comfortable to become jerks if they are able see how they look like.
This is like when you replay a memory of the time when you weren’t the best person in the world instead you were mean. You feel regrets and it makes you annoyed at yourself and a bit insecure at the same time.
