Don uses various tools of benign manipulation to attract customers.
She seems conscious of the benign manipulation of her approach.
Using turtles as performers is of course a far more benign manipulation, but is nonetheless troubling.
How benign that manipulation is depends largely on your perspective: are tech pioneers trying to give you a better experience, or are they cynically tricking you for their own gain?
This differential result of FRS manipulation in benign and malignant cells was investigated further as a therapeutic concept in radiation assays.
In some case, families' strategies included manipulation, albeit benign: "I used to [be] a bit conniving, say I'm coming to see the doctor, for me; that's the only way I could get her to the surgery, and then you start talking... she loved the doctor".
To examine this latter interaction, further Presentation × Time repeated measures ANOVAs investigated the effects of manipulations for the benign and negative training conditions separately.
Somewhat less benign was Mr. Merrick's manipulation at the opening of "42nd Street" in 1980.
In 2000 and 2001, as the bull market imploded, there was a spike in accounting problems -- a mix of outright fraud, earnings manipulation and more benign restatements necessitated by changes in business conditions.
Even an approach as seemingly benign as awarding gold stars, Kohn warns, is a manipulation that "teaches children that they are loved" only when they perform a "good job".
