Psychic Manipulation: Examples

I have witnessed the following interaction between people in my family and someone close to us.  My hair in this case was not that messy, I was trying to tame it, but not trying hard because I had just gotten home from being out.  So I saw the victim of the attempt kind of go, “yes her hair is messy,” but only after the perpetrator said, “I need you to believe her hair is messy,” when the normal manipulation didn’t take.  The victim had their eyes glaze over, smiling as the pleasant energy took hold, and immediately agreed with the perpetrator.  The immediate agreement spooked me but gave me valuable information to put in my book on psychic attack that I’m working on using a pen name