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Chapter 4: Secrets and Strategies of Dark Psychology — Dark Psychology : Secrets And Manipulation

The first practical skill of dark psychology is state control — the ability to choose what emotion you display in any moment. Mirror neurons make us emotional echo chambers; anchoring is how you stop echoing the wrong person.
Chapter 11: Anchors — Thinking, Fast and Slow

An arbitrary number — even one generated by a random spin of a wheel — pulls final judgments toward it. Anchoring is one of the largest and most reliable biases ever documented, operating through two distinct mechanisms in both System 1 and System 2.