How to Trick People into Thinking They Like You

The key to tricking people into thinking they like you is to make them act like they like you. That's it. I thought it would be useful to compile a list of tactics.

1) Get them to do favors for you. This is known as the Benjamin Franklin Effect where doing one favor for a person (you) makes them more likely to do more favors for that person than if that person (you) did a favor for them. The theory is that when they see themselves doing nice things for you, they think that it's because they like you. Suckers. Apparently this is a technique ol' Benny F. used to make friends.

2) Scare them. This is known as the misattribution of arousal. The adrenaline rush of fear is similar to the adrenaline rush of attraction. People can't really tell the difference.

3) Like them. And show them, I guess. This is the principle of reciprocity. People like people who like them. People are nice to people who are nice to them. 

4) Play hard-to-get. Make them uncertain of how you feel. I don't know if there's a good name for this effect, so here's a link instead. As much as I enjoy pretending that the world works the way I think it should, it does not. Though I would like for people to be able to say what they feel and get on where their lives, sometimes uncertain states are more optimal. I hate this, that's why it's last. Anyway, the theory behind this one is that when you are unsure of how much someone likes you (in this case, likes you), you are more prone to thinking about them and when you see yourself thinking about this person all the time, you conclude that you must like them.

I think I've talked about most of these before, but now here's a list with links. If I find any more, maybe I will add to the list. Probably not. Anyway, the common factor in all of these tricks is that they make people behave, on some level, like they like you. So really, you can generalize from there.