FBI mind attack: the super psychological tactics of the US federal police

Chapter 6 Combining Hardness and Softness, Leveraging Strength to Fight Strength——FBI's Super Psychological Code of Combining Hardness and Softness (1)
In fact, many people hope to win the psychological battle by virtue of their strong offensive momentum, but it often backfires.Although, a strong attack can sometimes make people a victor in the heart attack, but this method is not always victorious.Some mind attack masters understand that pinning all hopes of winning the mind attack war on a tough offensive is an unacceptable mind attack strategy.And sometimes, the method of attacking the heart with the combination of hardness and softness is the secret tactic to win the war of attacking the heart.Compared with the tough tactics of attacking the mind, the "strength and softness" method of attacking the mind will give people a little sweetness, and then relax their defensive psychology.In this way, the chances of winning will be increased for those who attack the mind.

1. Broaden your mind and set up ingenious situations - the psychological code of a needle hidden in the cotton
Many people will encounter such a situation when they try to enter the heart of others: no matter what you say, the opponent is indifferent and always perfunctory you.If the American police encounter this situation, they will be keenly aware that the other party is not listening to you carefully, but thinking about other things.Because the American police are sensitive to the following details: Although they are talking to you, their eyes are focused on other places, and sometimes, when you are talking to your opponent, the opponent is changing the subject or talking about something that is not related to the time. Talking on topics that don't quite fit the topic... If this happens to you when you're engaging in mind warfare, you've hit a roadblock that's hard to break through.In the view of the FBI, if you want to break through the barriers, you must first induce the opponent to change his indifference. The best way to induce him is to talk about some topics he is interested in first.

In the war of attacking the heart, the so-called indifference means that the opponent's heart does not respond to what you say, and at this time you have to change your offensive strategy and use things he is interested in to stir up waves in his heart.This is similar to how people like to be liked by others in social situations: if you want others to accept you and like you, you have to understand other people's hobbies and hobbies, and then match them up when chatting, so as to establish a relationship in the chat. Your relationship with others, so that you will quickly achieve the goal, and the same is true for heart attack.In fact, there are many ways to achieve the goal, and sometimes stubbornly following the same method will only make you unable to move an inch in the psychological war. At this time, we might as well change our thinking, broaden our thinking, and cleverly design a situation to help achieve the goal by oneself.

In a detection operation, the FBI captured a suspect named Charlie Davis based on the evidence they had.Charlie Davis was a burly man, about 6 feet tall, in his thirties at the time.He is always clean-shaven and takes great care to be neatly dressed.When the police interrogated him, Davis took the initiative to talk to the police, which surprised the police present.The police speculated that perhaps Davis was able to initiate a conversation with officers because he didn't know how to spend his seemingly inordinate amount of free time.So, in addition to this, is Davis doing this to give himself a favorable position in the negotiation, or even become the winner?The police realized that the suspect in front of him was no ordinary person.Therefore, the police decided to use his willingness to initiate conversations to attack his heart.Thinking of this, the FBI investigator changed his mind and said to Davis: "Now it seems that you do have an advantage over us. Charlie, because we don't know what you have done." The other party proudly replied: "I Killed five people." After that, he also told the FBI about his method of committing the crime.To the surprise of the police, there seemed to be no loopholes in the situation and planning scene under his single-handed control.So the cops said, "You're a real cop fan. You want to be a cop and hold a position of power, not some menial job that doesn't give you a chance to show your talents." Charlie laughed and told the police that his father had also been a police lieutenant.

At this time, Charlie described his usual method of killing women again at the request of the police, and he told the police about the process of killing five women at one time.At this time, the FBI changed its interview strategy, and the police said: "Charlie, you have problems interacting with women. You happened to be in financial crisis when you committed the crime for the first time. You were under thirty at the time. Do you think your Work doesn’t allow you to show your talents, so you feel that your life is very bad.” At this time, the policeman noticed that the other party was nodding, which proved that the policeman was right.

The police went on to say: "At that time, you owed debts and had frequent quarrels with the woman who lived with you." Speaking of this, the police discovered a detail: Charlie's body language was changing, and his emotions were gradually showing. .Therefore, the police continued to deduce based on the information they had already grasped: "However, when you committed the crime last time, your methods were far less brutal than the first time, because you put clothes on her after the rape and masked her." Cover her face." At this moment, the FBI noticed that Charlie was listening carefully to what the police had to say.So the policeman suddenly asked, "What did she say to you that made you finally decide to kill her?"

Suddenly, Charlie's face turned red, he hesitated and said, "She saw my face and knew what I looked like, so I had to kill her." After a moment of silence, the policeman said, "You take What did she have?" At this time, Charlie said frankly that he took the wallet and found a photo of the family in the wallet.At this time, the policeman continued: "You have been to her graveyard, because you are very guilty of this murder. And, you did not go to the graveyard empty-handed, what did you bring? It was the group photo, right?" Hearing this, Charlie nodded slightly, then lowered his head.At this time, the elites of the FBI breathed a sigh of relief, because they successfully solved the case.

During the process of interrogating Charlie, the method adopted by the FBI is to change its thinking in time, broaden its thinking, and then pursue it skillfully to make the opponent admit what it has done.In fact, over the years of development, the FBI has encountered a variety of suspects, whose modus operandi are not exactly the same, and it is these different modus operandi that left clues to the FBI—and these subtle clues Both can enable the FBI to infer the opponent's personality, so that the FBI can change its own thinking and set up a situation for the opponent to allow the opponent to act according to his wishes.In order to make the situation they set up for their opponents more effective, American police often imagine what they would do if they were in the position of a suspect?As a result, the police can figure out the opponent's psychological activities.In fact, it is not easy to figure out the opponent's psychology, but it is an important step in setting up a game for the opponent.Because this allows the US police to better understand their opponents, so they will have an advantage when setting up the situation.

During the interrogation of Charlie, the FBI used the information and inferences it possessed to set up a situation where Charlie had to "fascinate", so that he unknowingly told about his crimes in the process of communicating with the police. go through.During the interrogation of Charlie, the American police first said to Charlie: "It seems that you have an advantage over us." And it was this sentence that helped the American police obtain the final result-in the eyes of the suspect, Now that he already has the advantage, the opponent's chances of winning are naturally slim.In this way, Charlie went deeper into the situation set up by the US police step by step, and finally admitted what he had done.However, these practices of the American police have puzzled some people who want to learn psychological attack: Generally speaking, people try their best to cover up their disadvantages, only to let their opponents see their advantages; Weaknesses, because people are unwilling to harm themselves or others.However, when the FBI interrogated Charlie, it was uncharacteristically telling the other party where its disadvantages were, and it was this approach that made the FBI extremely credible.

The FBI's experience tells us that at some point we should properly expose our own or others' shortcomings, so that we can increase our "credibility" in the opponent's mind.From another perspective, properly exposing your own or others' shortcomings can also help you create a flexible situation when attacking others' hearts.

The FBI exposed its shortcomings just right when it dealt with Charlie psychologically.One is to clearly tell the other party "you have an advantage over us" at the beginning of the conversation, and the other is to say "there is a problem with the way you interact with women" when Charlie walks into the situation set up by the American police step by step.The advantage of these two methods in psychological warfare is that the first method of exposing one's own shortcomings can make oneself more honest, and the second method of exposing others' shortcomings can make oneself more credible, while "honesty" The biggest advantage that "credibility" brings to the American police is that it is easier for Charlie to get into the trap they set up.However, we need to remind everyone that although the method of "exposing the shortcomings of oneself and the opponent" can make the situation you set up more realistic, it will be counterproductive if you do not master it well.Because many people can tell the difference between true and false, especially those who are often flattered by others. These people only need to listen to one sentence to know whether you are offering advice to him sincerely, or if you are offering advice to him in a hypocritical way to set up a situation or a strategy. suggestion.In fact, broadening your mind is certainly a good thing, and properly exposing your shortcomings is also a way to broaden your mind, but we should pay attention when using these methods. It is certainly a good thing to be able to broaden your mind and discover new ways of attacking the heart, but Once you make your "lie" known to the other party, your desire to set the situation will come to naught.This reminds us that if we want to set the situation for the opponent in the psychological battle, we must remind ourselves: it is a good thing to broaden our minds and break the rules, but we must not let the opponent see through that we are lying.

From the process of the American police interrogating Charlie, we summed up the American police's strategy of attacking the mind. It is nothing more than adjusting their own strategies in a timely manner, broadening their thinking, boldly innovating, and appropriately exposing the shortcomings of themselves and the other party. The game and can let the opponent enter the game without knowing it.Maybe some smart people will also find this information from this case: when the American police interrogated Charlie, they cleverly set up a situation for the other party that would not be easy to detect.However, although the American police successfully set up the situation, they did not see the seriousness of the police when talking with the other party.From another perspective, "hardness and softness" is the best way to describe the way the American police interrogated Charlie.If we analyze carefully, we will know that there is nothing wrong with this approach of the American police—if the American police still maintain a serious style when using tactics to set up the situation for their opponents, they will definitely not be able to close the psychological distance with their opponents, but only temporarily. Only by changing one's serious style can the opponent's defensive psychology be relaxed.When the opponent gradually described his behavior, he used his usual style to force the opponent to admit the crime.From this point of view, the FBI is using the method of "combining rigidity and softness" to narrow the psychological distance between itself and the suspect, and then open up its own thinking and cleverly set up a situation. This is also a good way.

The experience of the FBI tells us that when setting up the situation for the opponent, the method of "combining rigidity and softness" can make the opponent relax his guard to the greatest extent.Only in this way can our method of setting up the situation be effective and help us thoroughly enter the opponent's heart, thereby cracking the opponent's psychological code and becoming the victor in the psychological battle.

2. FBI elites know how to play hard to get and give their opponents what they want first

"Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages" is one of human nature, and people think about problems from their own perspective all the time.Psychological research believes that this is a survival instinct of human beings.In other words, in terms of dealing with others, if people can meet a person who has the closest relationship with their interests and can provide them with effective help, they will take the initiative to get close to them.Similarly, when people think about problems, they first consider their own interests.For example, when applying for a job, the first thing people think of is whether the company will provide us with good treatment, and what else can we get from it.Ultimately, under the premise of interest, people will inevitably choose a company that can provide them with the most income.From another perspective, the reason why these companies successfully recruit the talents they need is that the company provides them with careers and incomes that interest them. , You must know how to play hard to get, first give the opponent what the opponent wants.

Psychological research shows that the things people care most about are usually the things they are most interested in.Therefore, when you get along with a stranger, if you want to get close to him as soon as possible, you must talk about some topics that can arouse the interest of the other party.Of course, if you are only limited to "talking" at this time, the result may not be satisfactory, but let the other party get it.

The French writer La Fontaine once wrote such a fable:

The south wind and the north wind decide to compete to see who has the highest ability. The way of the competition is to see who can make pedestrians take off their coats.The north wind blows a bitter cold wind to the pedestrians, and it blows more and more fiercely. As a result, the pedestrians wrap their coats tighter in order to resist the severe cold; while the south wind blows slowly, the wind is sunny all of a sudden, and the pedestrians feel warm, so they take off their coats. Lost coat.As a result, it is self-evident who wins the game.

Although the fable is fabricated by the writer, it contains a clever way of attacking the heart: first give the other party benefits.Among the intelligence of the FBI, this is the law of "playing hard to get".The so-called "playing hard to get" means acting contrary to one's own goal in superficial behavior, but achieving one's own goal.On the surface, it seems that the American police are complying with the opponent's wishes when dealing with the opponent, but invisibly let the opponent encounter setbacks or discover their own defects, and then correct the opponent's point of view, so as to achieve the purpose of attacking the heart.In fact, in the process of dealing with suspects, the FBI sometimes uses this method to successfully tame opponents. The process of dealing with Richard Speck is such a process.

In 1966, Richard Speck was sentenced to life in prison for attacking nursing school students in a South Chicago suburb, killing several.Later, the FBI successfully hacked into his heart, made him admit the crime and served his sentence, but the process of interrogating Richard Speck was not very easy.When the FBI had just confronted him, Richard Speck made it clear his wishes: he hoped that the police would not confuse him with other suspects, because he did not want to appear on the same list with these people.Richard Speck further stated: "Those guys are some crazy people, serial killers, and I am not like that."

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