Subliminal stimuli

[Tigranakert]

Subliminal stimuli. Interesting and also worrisome to know. It means showing a picture (or text) so fast on tv, you can not see it but your mind registers it. Today, because of an error, such a message was shown on Dutch tv, that's why I began reading about it.

The message was;

In connection with the death of tiny little toddler, we ask you for two hours and 30 minutes intense grief and painful sexual acts. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Don't ask me what it means and why it was there. It is also known the republicans used this technique during the last commercials, in one frame you could (not) see democRATS.

Also, these pictures have been shown on American television;
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A McDonald's logo appeared for one frame during the Food Network's Iron Chef America series on January 27, 2007, leading to claims that this was an instance of subliminal advertising. The Food Network replied that it was simply a glitch.[43]

In February 2007, it was discovered that 87 Konami slot machines in Ontario (OLG) casinos displayed a brief winning hand image before the game would begin. Government officials worried that the image subliminally persuaded gamblers to continue gambling; the company claimed that the image was a coding error. The machines were removed pending a fix by Konami.[46]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

Maybe we should also use this in Armenia? Some subliminal messages to make the people more patriotic and have more children?

[Armanen]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

I'm not sure how effective subliminal messaging is, I think it works much better on people who are already leaning toward what the message is trying to convey. Hypnosis works in the same way.

[Tigranakert]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

I think it's a long term process, if a child reads such messages over a period of years, it will have it's effect.

[Armanen]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

I think it's a long term process, if a child reads such messages over a period of years, it will have it's effect.

Yes, I think if done over many years it will have an effect. However, short term it is not nearly as harmful and again is based on a person's susceptability to subliminal stimuli.

[Tigranakert]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

In 2007, to mark the 50th anniversary of James Vicary's original experiment, it was recreated at the International Brand Marketing Conference MARKA 2007. As part of the "Hypnosis, subconscious triggers and branding" presentation 1,400 delegates watched part of the opening credits of the film Picnic that was used in the original experiment. They were exposed to 30 subliminal cuts over a 90-second period. When asked to choose one of two fictional brands, Delta and Theta, 81% of the delegates picked the brand suggested by the subliminal cuts, Delta.[47] Although, Delta is also a real brand.

I think it really has an effect, also on short-term. I have also spoken a psychologist on this matter. I did a little test myself, I was whispering "tennis", "tennis", next to a friend of mine, without him noticing. Afterwards, I said draw something on a piece of paper, after I had drawn something on a piece of paper. He had drawn a tennis racket, which was exactly the same of what I had drawn. He was in shock. I never told him I was whispering "tennis", "tennis".

[londontsi]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

I have heard this ( in the UK, a few years ago) being used in some department stores to encourage people to spend more.
It was mixed with a background music.
There was a public outcry. It was “stopped”.

Do not know how effective it was.

[Siggie]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

Been through this literature and cover the topic in my class: Subliminal priming can produce a very short-lived effect (like primes do...), but it doesn't change attitudes. No worries.

Incidentally, most of what people think of when they think of subliminal messages, isn't even subliminal. Subliminal, by definition, requires that the stimulus be below the threshold of perception.

I skimmed the article, and it does mention the very short effect, the lack of effects beyond placebo, and even the history, including Vicary who pretty much started the public outcry about subliminal advertising with his fraudulent claims.

[Odar]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

Patriotism - intended as the will to spend one's energies for the good of the nation - is a way more complex behaviour than just, say, wave a flag or bash a Turk, and so it can't be instilled via subliminals. Same as for raising children - which is not the same thing as just having them.
If you noticed, all the examples given are about short term, istinctive reactions - vote X/Y, buy this, play that, have sex, snarl at a face you don't like - and their efficiency when applied to complex patterns is highly disputable.

[Haykakan]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

http://www.subliminalmessages.com/plane_charter_1b.htm

[Siggie]

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

http://www.subliminalmessages.com/plane_charter_1b.htm

These are perceptual illusions, not subliminal stimuli.