While much of the free world has been obsessing about deflated footballs for the past couple of weeks, letting air out of a pigskin is hardly the only area where rules are bent or broken in the sports ...

Psychological manipulation can be defined as the exercise of undue influence through mental distortion and emotional exploitation, with the intention to seize power, control, benefits and/or ...

In this culture, we often think of manipulation as an attempt to take advantage of others by controlling or influencing them unfairly, deceitfully, or unscrupulously. For example, parents sometimes ...

A "funny" thing can happen after people are manipulated: They want to think they really weren't manipulated after all. Take those designer jeans. Why, just look in the mirror. They do make me look ...

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NEW YORK (AP) -- It's been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone's story or some event actually took place: "Pics, or it didn't happen." But in a world where the spread of technology makes ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson told CNN in an interview published Wednesday he was "very surprised" by his former "Fast & Furious" co-star Vin Diesel, who asked him to return to the franchise in November. ...