title: Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You
author:  Susan Forward 
description: Forward, who gave us the best-selling The Men Who Hate Women, and the Women Who Love Them, offers a course on self-defense for anyone manipulated by guilt.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Conditional Promises and Threats – Cognition and Emotion
  Sieghard Beller (beller@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de)
  Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg
  D-79085 Freiburg, Germany
  Abstract
  Conditional promises and threats are speech acts that can
  be used to manipulate the behavior of other persons.
  Although reasoning studies have been able to reveal some
  peculiarities of these concepts, the explanation has
  remained fragmentary. To ﬁll in this gap, a theoretical
  analysis of conditional inducements is proposed, which
  integrates cognitive as well as emotional aspects. An
  experiment – focussing on linguistic, pragmatic, emo-
  tional, and deontic consequences – corroborates the anal-
  ysis and shows that persons have a clear understanding of
  conditional inducements.
  Introduction
  Conditional promises and threats are speech acts
  (Searle, 1971) uttered by a person to manipulate an
  addressee’s behavior by setting up consequences of his
  behavior (cf. Conison, 1997; von Wright, 1962). Walk