But such offers are sometimes used as psychological tricks.

The old man was up to all the psychological tricks.

They were getting more clever by the hour, trying psychological tricks when the physical illusions didn't work.

And she has a psychological trick to get through the race.

Or was it some elaborate psychological trick to drive a wedge between us.

What a system of psychological tricks to impress the gullible.

Finally, here is another helpful psychological trick: View the two parts of your portfolio as a competition.

This could all be a vicious psychological trick played on us by the main enemy to damage our morale.

He wasn't trying to work any psychological tricks with me.

Was his answer only a psychological trick to arouse a certain feeling of ire in me or didn't he really know any better?