ManipulateMe

Every manipulation technique, catalogued, explained, and put to the test. ManipulateMe is a field guide to influence and manipulation, with a training ground attached. Gaslighting, love bombing, false urgency, anchoring, "everyone does it", the foot in the door: each technique has its card, with how it works, a real-life example, its source, and how to recognize it when it's used on you. THE ATLAS • 136 concepts across 11 fields: coercive control, classic rhetoric, modern argumentation, fallacies, cognitive biases, social psychology, commitment and compliance, negotiation, propaganda and design, interrogation, and defense. • 49 technique cards, sourced: Cialdini, Chris Voss, Kahneman, Harvard negotiation. • For each technique, a "Protect yourself" section. • Famous ideas that didn't survive recent studies, like power poses or the Stanford prison experiment, are flagged as such rather than hidden. THEN TRY THEM Reading isn't enough. In ManipulateMe, you talk freely, in your own words, with characters who each hide what they really want: a Neapolitan antique dealer who won't sell a vase, a colleague about to walk out, an HR director two days before a strike, a man on the phone barricaded in a post office with three hostages. • Pick a situation and write what you would really say. No multiple choice. • The character reacts like a real person: they dig in if you push, they open up if you aim right. • You have a limited number of lines to find the one real opening. • A debrief then shows what worked, what closed the door, and the technique hiding behind it. 21 CHALLENGES, FROM EASY TO TENSE Negotiate a price, get an out-of-time refund, win over a committee, calm stage fright, convince your father to see a doctor, win 4 votes out of 6 at a condo meeting, win a debate duel, talk hostages out without a shot being fired. Some challenges have two doors, an honest one and a darker one. Both work. The debrief tells you what each one cost. DISCOVER YOUR STYLE After a few games, the app analyzes how you play and sorts you into a profile: the Strategist, the Bulldozer, the Chameleon, the Storyteller… It also tells you which family of techniques to work on next. LEARN TO RESIST You spot manipulation much better once you've practiced it yourself, in small doses. That is the principle of inoculation, the one defense whose effectiveness is well documented. YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS No account, no email asked, no ads, no tracking. Your first name stays on your phone. FREE TO START Start for free. Premium unlocks every challenge and all the theory in a single purchase of €5.99. No subscription. Available in French, English and Spanish.