Abuse & Institutional "Impression Management" (#153)
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What's an Integrating Tactic?
When somebody wants to increase the liking that another person has of them, they might try to exaggerate or fabricate or exploit some shared opinion. Or lesathing may be a common example of this: Someone goes to a person in a position of leadership and says, you know, i i think that the organization is being harmful in these ways. And let's say the organization doesn't agree with that, but they view this person as a threat. They don't want it to escalate. In order to satisfy this person, they might feign agreement just to form an alliance with that person and then ingratiate that person to them. So that person leaves thinking, ok, they heard
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