Machiavellianism and Aggression as Predictors of Emotional Manipulation

A doctoral thesis that works out what actually separates manipulation from honest influence. It builds a trickery based account and tests it against advertising, politics and everyday personal relationships.

James Dunstan

Sunstein argues that a statement is manipulative when it bypasses your capacity for reflective choice. He maps the many forms this takes and asks why the law so rarely polices any of them.

Cass R. Sunstein