An expression of this is the forging of 'unholy alliances' between people who have nothing in common except a common enemy. The enemy is usually masculine. When one thing means another. The value of a token can be different for the giver and the receiver. It is proposed that all transactions can be analyzed in terms of signals, markers, tokens and handles.
Males prefer markers and handles while females reinforce signals and tokens.
Transduction may be positive or negative according to whether a person is falsely enhanced or diminished, but most transduction appears to be negative. Positive transduction is routinely practised by the staff of casinos, restaurants and airlines, for example to make a client feel important or promote their good behaviour in a confined space. A security guard in a supermarket might transduce guilt in a customer by closely observing him, even though nothing has been stolen. Overt transduction is laughing at someone unjustly, but transduction is more typically encountered in leaving behaviour, for example quitting a place because a certain person has arrived or an unpalatable fact has been stated. Although transduction is a female mechanism, it is remarkable how widely the different races of man vary in their capacity to transduce and their susceptibility to it.