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Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain

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How Indirectness Works in Other Contexts

Sot of the difference between people who prefer their speech to be direct and people who prefer to use more indirect speech. You you have something called the birthday present routine that illustrates this idea. What is it people who tend to be direct don't understand why anyone would be indirect. Sometimes they can understand it. And so that is how indirectness works in other contexts as well.

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