Noun. Person who senses others’ thoughts. seer. soothsayer. clairvoyant.

: to know exactly what someone is thinking “I think we should go out to a movie tonight.” “You read my mind.

If you hear pages turning with no books nearby, someone may be reading your mind. Check for bookmarks, it’s a good sign someone was reading your mind. If someone comments ‘You’re like an open book!

How to read people like a pro: 16 tricks from psychology

1. Be objective and open-minded.
2. Pay attention to appearance.
3. Pay attention to people’s posture.
4. Watch their physical movements.
5. Try to interpret facial expressions.
6. Don’t run away from small talk.
7. Scan the person’s overall behavior.

4 Ways To Psychologically Manipulate Someone

1. Use Body Language To Your Advantage. The way the brain stimulates physical movements and reactions during day-to-day interactions is almost uncontrollable.
2. Change The Perspective.
3. Leverage Your Knowledge Of Others.
4. Be Aware Of Proper Timing and Opportunity.

Twelve Common Manipulation Tactics

1. Using intense emotional connection to control another person’s behavior.
2. Playing on a person’s insecurities.
3. Lying and denial.
4. Hyperbole and generalization.
5. Changing the subject.
6. Moving the goalposts.
7. Using fear to control another person.

Be charismatic.

1. Make people feel special. Make eye contact when you talk to them, and ask them about their feelings and interests.
2. Exude confidence. Charismatic people love who they are and what they do.
3. Be confident. When you say something, whether it’s true or just another creation, do it with confidence.

How to Recognize Manipulative Behavior

1. They Don’t Respect Boundaries. Manipulators tirelessly go after what they want, without worrying about who they might hurt along the way.
2. They Make You Question Your Reality.
3. They Always Deflect Blame.
4. They Justify Their Behavior.

Signs of gaslighting

1. no longer feeling like the person you used to be.
2. being more anxious and less confident than you used to be.
3. often wondering if you’re being too sensitive.
4. feeling like everything you do is wrong.
5. always thinking it’s your fault when things go wrong.
6. apologizing often.

Gaslighting is a form of sustained psychological manipulation that causes the victim to question or doubt his or her sanity, judgment, and memories. “At its heart, gaslighting is emotional abuse,” explains Bergen.

One of the most common reasons people gaslight is to gain power over others. This need for domination may stem from narcissism, antisocial personality, or other issues. Like most cases of abuse, gaslighting is about control. As gaslighting progresses, the target often second-guesses their own memories and thoughts.

Look for signs of repeated denial of your experience. 3) Figure out if you are in a power struggle with your partner. If you find yourself having the same conversation over and over again and can’t seem to convince them to acknowledge your point of view, you might be getting gaslighted.

Stonewalling involves refusing to communicate with another person. Intentionally shutting down during an argument, also known as the silent treatment, can be hurtful, frustrating, and harmful to the relationship.

Gaslighting usually happens in a power dynamic, but it’s not always intentional or malicious. “Many people [in this case the targets of gaslighting] change their perceptions in order to avoid having a conflict,” Lancer explains.

In personality disorders Sociopaths and narcissists frequently use gaslighting tactics to abuse and undermine their victims. Sociopaths consistently transgress social mores, break laws and exploit others, but typically also are convincing liars, sometimes charming ones, who consistently deny wrongdoing.

It is a manipulation tactic someone uses to make others doubt their memories, perceptions and judgements. While brainwashing and manipulation are common tactics of cult leaders and dictators, gaslighting can occur in personal relationships and professional working relationships.

The techniques of brainwashing typically involve isolation from former associates and sources of information; an exacting regimen requiring absolute obedience and humility; strong social pressures and rewards for cooperation; physical and psychological punishments for non-cooperation ranging from social ostracism and …

Although brainwashing can produce profound alterations in character, values, and disposition, it cannot easily be accommodated by such current criminal defenses as mental incapacity, automatism, or coercion. There are valid moral arguments that brainwashing should afford an excuse to all crimes.

Brainwashing is said to reduce its subjects’ ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as to change their attitudes, values and beliefs.

“Brainwashing occurs when a person is physically incarcerated in order to believe something.” As far as we know, said Malony, these women and children — and even men, for that matter — have not been held against their will, but rather, have grown up in the sect and have become socialized to its customs.

The ability to detect electrical activity in the brain through the scalp, and to control it, will soon transform medicine and change society in profound ways. Patterns of electrical activity in the brain can reveal a person’s cognition—normal and abnormal.

It goes without saying that you have to figure out what’s on your mind before you can begin to control it….Identify the thoughts you want to change

1. rumination, or looping thoughts.
2. negative self-talk.
3. cognitive biases, or errors in thinking that can affect your choices or interactions.
4. a fixed pessimistic outlook.