РУҲИЙ МАНИПУЛЯЦИЯ – ТАБИИЙ РЕСУРСЛАР УЧУН КУРАШ ВОСИТАСИ

The article analyzes psychological manipulation as a means of fighting for natural resources. The author defines psychological manipulation as a social and psychological impact, aimed at the expedient change in the consciousness and behavior of people with the help of secret and deceiving tactical means. In the article, the author discusses the attributes of posi-tive and negative manipulation, direct and indirect manipulation, manipulation of individual, collective and mass consciousness and behavior. It reveals the main features of the manipulation of mass consciousness and behavior in the process of the struggling for natural resources.