Expectation Priming as Social Weapon

A tactic where a third party convinces one person that another will hate or attack them so that routine encounters become hostile through nonverbal signaling and confirmation bias. It requires no direct contact with the ultimate target and converts private belief priming into public conflict via feedback loops of perception and response. — This reframes some polarization and harassment not as organic grievance but as cheap, one‑sided social engineering with implications for moderation, policing, and community resilience.