Modern society is a set of close social ties, which determine many factors that affect human behavior, perception of individuals and interrelation in separate groups. Knowledge of psychological peculiarities of both an individual and of a group, to which the person belongs, allow to realize the qualitative assessment of actions and conduct the analysis of its subsequent steps. For some, perception of this type of information is not important, although it brings benefits to other people. The ability to conceal their intentions and the opportunity to predict them is in a highdemand, although not everyone understands that this generates other peculiarities of the psyche, which are also a peculiar psychologicalburden for a person. Therefore, everyone who is interested in issues of personal manipulation and protection from it, should qualitatively evaluate the consequences of their actions. Mental components of manipulations, features of consciousness and subconsciousness of a person in the conditions of interaction were reasonably developed in the works of Z. Freud, G. Leona, V. Bekhterev, K.-G. Jung and other classics of psychology. Important steps in studying the manipulation problem in the context of psychological science itself were made in the 70’s-80’s of the twentieth century. Regardless of on a relatively large volume of literature on the problem there are relatively few of complete works, devoted to psychological manipulation. We can include to them the works of Western authors R. Gudin, G. Schiller, E. Shostrom, U. Proto, G. Rudinov and others. Since the 90’s, the number of publications on the subject of psychological impact increases as an avalanche. Nowadays, among the most famous scholars who studied the issues of manipulative influence are: O. Dotsenko, O. Sydorenko, G. Grachev, I. Melnyk, T. Kabachenko, E. Bern, B. Bessonov, O. Wagin, G. Kovalev, V. Krys’ko, V. Kulikov, N. Koval, S. Povarnyn, V. Pankratov, G.Poceptsov, D.Rennedyk, V. Sagatovskyi, V.Sheinov,R.Chaldini and others. The topicality of the problem studied in the work comes from everyday needs of every person, particularly from the comfortable existence in the modern a society, which is closely connected with the peculiarities, habits of the group, in which the person exists, lives and communicates. The Knowledge of specific society behavior, the ability to recognize and prevent the development of events gives a possibility to feel comfortably in a group or other social groups, avoiding conflict situations. The object of the research is to discover the interaction behavior features, mental and physiological features, through which there is a human contact with the surrounding environment; to explore the most common ways of manipulating and to identify ways of its protection, taking into account the achievements of classical schools and more modern scientific views. To achieve this goal, it was supposed to accomplish the following tasks: 1) to discover a scientific discourse on manipulation issues, concealed/hidden management/control; 2) to verify in practice (by questioning) the theory of the people’s division on groups by type of world perception; 3) to identify the main means of protection against manipulation and concealed/ concealed/hidden management.The objects of the study are ways and methods for manipulating and hidden management. The subject of research is a psychological basis in character and behavior of the person most often appealed by the initiators of manipulation. Academic novelty and theoretical significance of work deals with the generalized theoretical knowledge of the basic manipulation and hidden management concepts; the main ways of manipulation and ways of protection from it are considered; the theory of the people’s division of people into groups by type of perception is confirmed in practice.