Manipulation

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In general, manipulation is a human activity dealing with physical states of objects, or mental states of persons. The goal of manipulation is either not clear, or incomprehensible or morally/legally unacceptable.

In particular, the word manipulation can refer to:

• Joint manipulation
• Social influence
• Sleight of hand tricks in magic.

In finance:

• Stock manipulation

See also

• Abuse
• Advertising
• Brainwashing
• Charisma
• Fraud
• Indoctrination
• Love bombing
• Machiavellianism
• Manipulator (The Fall of Troy album)
• Media manipulation
• Mind control
• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
• Photo manipulation
• Propaganda
• Puppeteer
• Social engineering
• Social psychology

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