Social hacking

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Social Hacking is the art of understanding your own mind and the minds of people around you. Social Hacking is related to Social Engineering but differs on the point that Social Engineering focuses mainly on manipulate people into performing actions or divulging confidential information where as Social Hacking focuses on understanding why people perform such actions. Social Hacking involves trying to scientifically explain why humans act the way they do in all kinds of social interaction.