Manipulation Tactic:  Guilt Tripping Category: Emotional Manipulation Red Flag Indicators Guilt tripping is an Emotional Manipulation tactic used by one person to induce feelings of guilt or excessive responsibility in another, with the goal of influencing or controlling their behavior. Essentially, it's an attempt to make someone feel so bad that they feel compelled to do what the "guilt-tripper" wants. Here are the core aspects and common examples of guilt tripping: Psycho

Manipulation Tactic: Fear, Obligation, Guilt (FOG) Category: Emotional Manipulation Red Flag Indicators FOG ( Fear, Obligation, Guilt ) is a psychological model where a persons emotional levers used in emotional blackmail to control another person. The FOG represents a set of emotional triggers that manipulators use to create a psychological "fog" of confusion, anxiety, and self-doubt in the target, making it difficult to set boundaries or see the manipulation clearly. Psy