Sigmund Freud described the mind as an iceberg with the unconscious mind far exceeding the visible part above the surface. Source: Courtesy of Damian Pang, incorporating images from Annie Spratt ...

What really happens when people try to communicate with one another? Specifically, when one person gets up in front of lots of other people and tries to inspire, inform, motivate, teach, change, or ...

Update: The event has reached capacity, but it may be viewed live online at www.wm.edu/lecture/watch - Ed. Picture this: You’re standing in a garden on a gorgeous ...

A useful way to think about gestures is as an early warning system for intent, emotion, and mood. We gesture because our unconscious minds push us to do so with an emotion, an intent, or a desire that ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Effective leadership development involves using neurolinguistic programming (NLP) to address unconscious behavioral patterns. Rather than ...

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality defines the unconscious mind as an accumulation of feelings, thoughts, urges, desires, and memories that are outside your own conscious awareness.

When it comes to detecting deceit, your automatic associations may be more accurate than conscious thought in pegging truth-tellers and liars, according to research. The findings suggest that ...

What do our dreams mean, and why are we fascinated by them? Newsweek explores the meaning of dreams in a new Special Edition, Spiritual Living, The Secret to Peace and Happiness. This article, by ...

“Have you not noticed that, often, what was dark and perplexing to you the night before,” the inventor Alexander Graham Bell once asked, “is found to be perfectly solved the next morning?” Probably, ...

"We set out to test whether the unconscious mind could catch a liar – even when the conscious mind failed," she says. The researchers first had 72 participants watch videos of "suspects" in a ...