Intimidation

[Juan and Yenan]

Intimidation is generally used in the meaning of criminal threatening.

Intimidation is a criminal attempt to threat by speaking or acting in a dominating manner, often with the goal of making a person or people do what the intimidator wants.

Threatening behaviours are supposed to be a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for inter relational dominance generally seen in animals. In case of human beings, threatening behaviours may be more completely modulated by social forces, or may be more mercilessly plotted by individual egotism.

Like all behavioral traits it exists in greater or lesser manifestation in each individual person over time, but may be a more significant "compensatory behavior" for some as opposed to others. Behavioral theorists often see threatening behaviours as a consequence of being threatened by others, including parents, authority figures, playmates and siblings.

Intimidation may be employed consciously or unconsciously, and a percentage of people who employ it consciously may do so as the result of selfishly rationalized notions of its appropriation, utility or self-empowerment.

Intimidation may be manifested in such manner as physical contacts, glowering countenance, emotional manipulation, verbal abuse, purposeful embarrassment and/or actual physical assault.