User:Mpatel48/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Manipulation (psychology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I have always been interested in the hypnosis and manipulating acts of magicians and day to day life. In movies and shows it is a common act that is performed and seeing the reasoning why a specific act does well or does not do well has always interested me. This article gives insight to the background of this form of psychological mind games. The act of manipulation can occur to anyone without the individual realizing that it is occurring. This topic matters because sometimes people do it with ill intentions and I feel if we knew the background to this, we can be prepared. Our society is constantly changing and with topics like these it is becoming a more serious matter and everyone needs a brief understanding of the formation of the topic. My preliminary impression was that the upbringing of manipulation was not something I thought could tie into different psychological disorders. I found it interesting when I was reading the article to see how easily you can persuade an individual. I also did not realize that manipulation was strictly negative compared to influencing and persuading.

Evaluate the article
The lead section for this article does a good job describing the main point of manipulation. When you read the first sentence you are given a definition which then you can apply to other concepts. I do not think this article gives a good brief description on the contents. It primarily just describes the point of manipulation and does not give insight on main sections for the article. The lead section could use a little more information detailing on what to expect the rest of the article to be about; it does a good job on getting to the point and concise the information. The content provides information in various areas for this topic. It talks about assessment tools and popular areas that you may see this occur. The content section also ties in various mental illness that could occur from manipulation. The last time this article was worked on was August 30, 2022; I believe the contents section is up to date. The article does not mention the equity gap, so this would be considered a missing section. The tone and balance overall seem to be neutral and is not pushing towards one side over the other. I do not see any part where bias opinions are made or the author is trying to exploit a specific part of the article; therefore the viewpoints are in neutral common ground. The article gives information on the overall topic and does not have a lot on personal opinions to persuade the reader to take action. Each sentence or phrase mentioned in the article have a hyperlink to a reference that is sourced properly at the bottom of the page. There are 31 sources that this article uses and they tie in books and resources to help expand on the topic information. The sources seem to be up to date and various authors partake in writing this article. The sources used are in various forms such as books, peer reviewed journals, secondary sources, etc. The few links I have selected also work when you click on them. I love how the article breaks information down into small paragraphs instead of clumping all the information together. The article uses various bullet lists, paragraphs, and indentations to keep the look concise and easy to follow. I did not see any grammatical or spelling errors from when I read it, but I could go back and check any mechanical errors. The article is lacking images and media to help further expand the topic. For visual learners there are no graphs or images; however there is a table to breakdown a few definitions. The first conversation I saw was that the title of the article had been changed. I also noticed that the authors are wanting to include more etiology and epidemiology into the structure of the article. Some of the writers want to have more strict definitions and provide more assessment tools. This article is rated as C class and is in the mid importance category, it is also apart of the WIkiProjects page. We have not talked about this specific topic in class yet but I am hoping we do soon. I would like to hear my classmates opinion on this topic. I feel like not all forms of manipulation need to be negative. We can turn some acts into a positive experience if it is done for a good intent. The articles overall status seems to be going on the right track but I think with a few more edits it can become more established. The strengths include popular Psychology books with relation to manipulation. The structure of the article is easy to follow and it does a good job of keeping the reader engaged. The best way to improve this article is by including more assessments to how manipulation and other mental illness go hand in hand. Then, including some type of visual description would be good to have an eye pleasing article. I would put this article in the middle of well developed and underdeveloped. If the criteria to publish this article is to just give general details of the topic, then the article hits that, but I think adding more concepts and relating this topic to other forms of negative social influence could expand the overall point.