http://strawpoll.me/3842939 Please vote there.
Do you guys believe there is a correlation, or link, between intelligence and manipulation?
Go wild (not really) and share your thoughts.

A more intelligent person may come up with maniulating strategies that work, but I think it works in the other way aswell. A more intelligent person is less prone to manipulation.

I think its more-so imbecilic people are more susceptible to manipulation. You don't have to be a Stephen Hawking to be able to manipulate a moron
or what he said^

I would think that intelligent people would find more success in manipulation than unintelligent people.

i'd imagine that even idiots are fairly capable of manipulating somebody. it doesn't take a lot of thinking skill to bash someone's appearance or corrupt their mind somehow. i tend to think that manipulation is quite immature, and there isn't really a direct link between intelligence and maturity, since intelligence is pretty much the engine, while maturity could be the control/or steering wheel. however, manipulation isn't necessarily immature, since you could argue that some of the most influential leaders used manipulation to achieve their goals.
tough one.


more likely, yes.

I agree with this.
I also challenge you all to make a list of the top ten most successful manipulators in history. Then ask yourself: Were these people intelligent?

I have one: the history teacher of Emperess Sissi; he manipulated her to love Hungary

Hitler manipulated people but wasn't exactly a genius. There is a minimum social intelligence required to manipulate people (knowing how people will react to what you say), although sociopaths are extremely good manipulators without understanding other people easily. They just learn and imitate. I feel like this shows that you can learn to manipulate others as well as just being good at it naturally (naturally including environmental influences on social intelligence as well as genetic potential to develop this intelligence). I don't know if any of this is right but it at least sounds partially sensible.

To stop this from coming up again (because it probably will), Hitler was actually very very intelligent.
http://youtu.be/Aab_6S01pyk

Sorry to say this but that source looks bias as hell to me (but most things do so...). I would approach such videos with scepticism. However, on further researching (read 'googling') It appears that there is a great deal of uncertainty around Hitler's intelligence behind the fact that he most likely had high social intelligence in order to manipulate people. I am not sure we will be able to answer a question still heavily debated by scholarly historians today. Or at least, not with a 3 minute 20 youtube video quoting a book written by one of Hitler's supporters (a member of the SS).

Here is a link which should download you a nice long essay about Hitler and stuff which nobody has time to read. If you really want closure for this point then it is your best bet.CLICK ME