Real CIA Manipulation Techniques That Might Help You Someday

The Ben Franklin Effect — Ask For A Small Favour

Counterintuitive but proven: people like you more after they’ve done something for you. The brain resolves the discomfort of helping a stranger by deciding it must like them. Agents use this constantly — asking a target to hold a door, lend a pen, or explain something trivial. Once someone has invested a small favour in you, they’re psychologically primed to invest more.