The article examines the mental processes of both the creators of manipulative impact and the recipients of influence. An integral space of manipulation is considered a set of mental spaces and their representations, formed in the process of designing and implementing manipulation. The methods applied are frame and conceptual space analyses. The article aims at identifying manipulation techniques in the discourse of radio broadcasts and viewing these techniques from the perspective of what mental (cognitive) models were used to form a cognitive bias. As a result of the study, the authors draw a conclusion under what conditions cognitive errors occur in people being manipulated. It is revealed that the audience tends to turn off the argumentative validity of the message, activating to a greater extent the emotional filters of cognitive processing. The proposed frame analysis of the mental space of manipulative impact can be successfully applied to identify manipulations in media discourse within a broad social context.
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Zabotkina et al. (2023) studied this question.