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1. Selective Memory: Only remembering certain things to make people think about the past in a
certain way, like forgetting your own mistakes during an argument.

2. Exaggeration: Making something seem bigger or worse than it really is to make people feel a
certain way or do something, like making an illness seem worse to get sympathy.

3. Undermining Confidence: Making someone feel less confident to control them, like always
saying negative things about a friend's abilities.

4. Ingratiation: Being really nice to someone to get them to like you or do what you want, like
complimenting your boss a lot to get promoted.

5. False Confession: Saying you did something you didn't do to make people feel sorry for you,
like admitting to a crime you didn't commit to protect someone else.

6. Love Bombing: Giving someone a lot of love and attention to make them feel overwhelmed
and controlled, like being super romantic on the first date.

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 7. Intellectual Superiority: Acting like you're smarter than someone to get them to agree with
you, like using big words to confuse people into thinking you're right.

8. Devaluation: Making someone seem less important to others, like spreading rumors to make
someone look bad.

9. Dependency Creation: Making someone rely on you for their needs to control them, like
convincing a partner they can't live without you.

10. Gaslighting: Making someone doubt their own memory or reality, like denying past events to
confuse someone.

11. Projection: Blaming others for what you do, like accusing your partner of being controlling
when you're the one who's possessive.

12. Social Exclusion: Leaving someone out of social stuff to control them, like not talking to a
friend after a fight until they say sorry.

13. Grooming: Making someone trust you before taking advantage of them, like becoming
friends with someone vulnerable before scamming them.

14. False Promises: Promising something you won't do to get someone to do what you want, like
promising a promotion without planning to give it.

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 15. Minimization: Making something seem less important than it is, like saying someone's
worries don't matter.

16. Selective Attention: Only listening to what supports your argument, like ignoring evidence
that goes against your beliefs.

17. Identity Theft: Pretending to be someone else to trick people, like pretending to be rich to
gain trust.

18. Weaponizing Empathy: Using someone's kindness to manipulate them, like borrowing money
you don't plan to pay back by making them feel sorry for you.

19. Emotional Manipulation: Using emotions like guilt or fear to control someone, like
threatening to hurt yourself if someone tries to leave you.

20. Financial Exploitation: Taking advantage of someone financially for yourself, like pressuring
an elderly relative to give you money.

21. False Accusations: Accusing someone of something they didn't do to control them, like
falsely accusing a coworker to make them look bad.

22. Moral High Ground: Acting morally better than others to make them do what you want, like

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 shaming someone for their choices to make them change.

23. Invasion of Privacy: Snooping into someone's personal stuff to control them, like spying on
your partner's phone to know everything.

24. Blackmail: Threatening to reveal something bad about someone unless they do what you
want, like threatening to tell someone's secret if they don't do what you ask.

25. Brainwashing: Using tricks to control what someone thinks and believes, like using lies and
isolation to control someone's mind.

26. Blame Shifting: This is when someone blames another person for something they did wrong,
like saying your sibling broke a vase when it was really you.

27. Intimidation: Scaring or threatening someone to make them do what you want, like saying
you'll hurt them if they don't listen.

28. Pity Play: Acting sad or helpless to make others feel sorry for you and do things for you, like
pretending to be sick to avoid chores.

29. Charm Offensive: Being super friendly and nice to make people like you and do what you
want, like being really charming to make friends easily.

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 30. Hoaxing: Making up fake stories to trick people and get something for yourself, like
spreading lies to change what people think.

31. Love Bombing: Showering someone with love and attention to make them feel overwhelmed
and do what you want, like being overly romantic to control them.

32. Crisis Creation: Making up or exaggerating a problem to make others do what you want, like
faking an emergency to get attention.

33. Disguised Threats: Saying something that sounds harmless but is actually a threat to make
people do what you want, like saying, "You wouldn't want anything bad to happen, right?" to
make someone scared.

34. Foot-in-the-Door Technique: Asking for a small favor first to make it easier to ask for a
bigger favor later, like asking for a little help before asking for a lot.

35. Door-in-the-Face Technique: Asking for a big favor you know will be refused, then asking
for a smaller favor that seems reasonable, like asking for something big and then something
smaller.

36. Repetition: Asking for something over and over again until someone gives in, like asking for
a favor many times until someone says yes.

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 37. Sunk Cost Fallacy: Making someone feel like they've already spent too much to give up, like
convincing someone to keep going with a project even if it's failing.

38. Information Overload: Giving too much information to confuse someone and make them do
what you want, like giving too many details to make someone agree with you.

39. Distraction: Changing the subject to avoid talking about something important, like talking
about something else during a serious conversation.

40. Reverse Psychology: Saying the opposite of what you want to make someone do it, like
saying "You probably won't want to help me" to make someone want to help.

41. False Reassurance: Saying everything will be okay to make someone stop worrying and not
take action, like saying "Don't worry, it'll be fine" to make someone do nothing.

42. Misdirection: Blaming something else to avoid taking responsibility, like blaming the
weather for being late instead of admitting you overslept.

43. Love Withdrawal: Threatening to stop showing affection or love to make someone do what
you want, like saying you'll leave your partner if they don't listen to you.

44. Smear Campaign: Spreading lies about someone to make others think badly of them, like
spreading rumors to ruin someone's reputation.

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 45. FOMO (Fear of Missing Out): Making someone feel like they'll miss out on something good
if they don't act quickly, like saying "Limited time offer!" to make people buy something.

46. Social Proof: Saying everyone else is doing something to make someone feel like they should
do it too, like saying "Everyone's going to the party" to make someone go.

47. Emotional Blackmail: Threatening to hurt someone emotionally if they don't do what you
want, like saying "If you loved me, you would..." to make someone feel guilty.

48. False Flattery: Giving fake compliments to make someone feel good and trust you, like
saying nice things to get someone to like you.

49. Conditional Love: Saying you'll only love someone if they do what you want, like saying "I'll
love you if you do this for me."

50. Fabrication: Making up stories or lying to make someone believe something that isn't true,
like lying about your skills to get a job.

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