Exploiters, or manipulators, may have evolved the ability to elicit seemingly positive affective states in others as a disarming maneuver, which can be reproductively costly to the victim even if the experience is not horrifying.

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  The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science

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• affective states concept