[psysec] I'm interested, but in you

[Gadi Evron]

Mike Murray wrote:
> Are you serious?
> 
> "Anchoring" is a weapon as much as any other part of framing. There's
> no special super-power that makes it worse than me using authority, or
> reciprocity, or any of Cialdini's elements.  (In fact, a strict
> interpretation of "anchoring" would call those things anchors)
> 
> Let me see if I understand you: if a woman wears perfume to try to get
> you in to bed, it's a "weapon" of "manipulation"?
> 
> That's wack, yo. ;)

If you intentionally try to anchor something to manipulate me during 
communication, without my knowledge and consent, it is manipulative, yo.

> -Mike
> 
> P.sM what anchors did my last sentence set off?  Were you manipulated
> by my weapon?