Experience with coercive power

  What is your experience with coercive power-- either as someone exerting this power or receiving this power? I'm particularly interested in hearing about what our author calls "implicit ad baculums" that can occur through subtle non-verbal cues (p.143). Why are these detrimental to critical thinking? What are ways in which you can attend to and counteract these types of coercive power -- again, either as someone exerting this power or receiving this power?