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Top Signs Of Gaslighting At Work And 5 Tips To Prevent It

Vantage Circle

Gaslighting is one of the forms of psychological abuse in which someone tries to gain power and influence over you by making you doubt yourself. When it comes to relationships or politics, we use the term "gaslight" quite frequently. But what about gaslighting at work? What Is Gaslighting At Work?

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More from Dr. Robin Stern on gaslighting

Minding the Workplace

I’ve recommended Dr. Robin Stern’s The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life (2018 ed.) as the best general source of information and guidance on the phenomenon of gaslighting, which occurs often in highly manipulative workplace bullying situations.

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Watching “Gaslight” (1944): One viewer’s guide

Minding the Workplace

On Friday evening, I hosted an online discussion of the movie Gaslight , the 1944 thriller that gave rise to the pop psych term gaslighting , a term now used to characterize psychologically manipulative and controlling behaviors in interpersonal relationships, the political realm, and — of course — our workplaces.

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Trolls at work: Bullying, button-pushing, and provoking

Minding the Workplace

(image courtesy of Clip Art Library) Have you ever dealt with someone at work who behaves like some of the most annoying, high-conflict people you’ve encountered in social media settings? Trolling vs. gaslighting Trolling and gaslighting are related concepts and practices. I had a clarifying moment the other day.

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Trending on workplace bullying (Fall 2021)

Minding the Workplace

Hello dear readers, this morning I took a quick look at my blog stats, wondering what older posts about workplace bullying and related topics have been attracting attention during the fall. Here’s what came up, excluding posts that I have re-shared more recently: Institutional gaslighting of whistleblowers (2018) ( link here ).

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“Gaslighting” is the Merriam-Webster 2022 “word of the year”

Minding the Workplace

Back in October, I shared a short viewer’s guide to the 1944 film Gaslight ( link here ), noting that it inspired the pop psych term gaslighting , which is “now used to characterize psychologically manipulative and controlling behaviors in interpersonal relationships, the political realm, and — of course — our workplaces.”

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