Within this book the following areas are covered with the aim to illuminate their significances in our everyday lives: the principles of dark psychology, "dark personality" traits, studies of dark psychology, mind reading, cognitive psychology, modes of persuasion, controlling emotions, and social engineering and leadership.
When most people think of the term "dark psychology" they go over the issues of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sociopathy in their minds. These are what are known as dark personality traits and are a mere microcosm of the field's overall outreach. These traits are important ones to study as we are all likely to know people who display, with some of us displaying them ourselves. This is just one area of dark psychology that is covered in depth within this book.
Mind reading, and modes of persuasion are two other areas delved into here. Virtually anyone can benefit greatly from studying these two areas, so here some useful tips and techniques regarding how to read what others are thinking and how to persuade them to work towards our ends are also included, among many other things.