Who is more likely to experience gaslighting? New research may hold the answers, writes ArashEmamzadeh
Wife: “Who were you talking to on the phone just now?”Wife: “I thought...Oh, sorry, I am not feeling well.”
In reality, the wife was right. But she did not trust her own perception. Why? Due to years of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a psychological control strategy used to manipulate a person's sense of reality and make them doubt their own perceptions, memories, and judgment.matter: the gaslighter’s. The victim’s views, as if the ramblings of a crazy person, are dismissed as not worthy of serious consideration.
To be clear, gaslighters do not necessarily have the long-term goal of making their romantic partner think themselves ill or crazy. However, because gaslighters cannot tolerate being challenged or thought wrong, their partner having a mind of his or her own is experienced as a major threat, one that must be destroyed.dependence power
, or the “capacity to influence derived from relational partners’ reliance on one another.” Gaslighting generates dependence power because the victim of gaslighting gradually depends more and more on the gaslighter—not just for approval but to knowThe research, discussed below, explored the link between dependence power and gaslighting.The sample: 298 college students; average age of 19 years old; 73 percent female.relationships. The main measures are described below.
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