Unconscious communication in everyday life / [electronic resource] Robert Langs.

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Includes index.

Two forms of expression -- Perspectives on human communication -- Surface messages -- Thinking outside of awareness -- Conscious encoding -- Unconscious encoding: an introduction -- Unconscious encoding: origins with Freud -- Unconscious encoding in our daily lives -- Indications of the presence of unconscious encoding -- Direct and contextual (trigger) decoding -- Direct decoding of dreams -- Trigger decoding of dreams -- Hidden triggers and their consequences -- Styles of communication -- Truth senders and truth receivers -- Lie senders and lie receivers -- Dumpers -- Role and image evocations -- Communicative styles in daily interactions.