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What are subliminal messages? Have they really been used in advertisements and commercials? Are they effective? Can they really effect our buying decisions?
Subliminal messages are affirmations used to program your mind at the subconscious level. The word "sub" is Latin and means anything that is underneath or below. A typical example of this would be sub-marine - because it operates underneath the ocean. In the word "subliminal" the second part is also taken from a Latin word - the word "limen". This Latin word actually means threshold and it is used to represent the threshold between two states of conscious. Therefore "subliminal" means "beneath the threshold of normal consciousness".
Therefore subliminal messages are "messages that are delivered or accepted underneath the threshold of normal consciousness. Subliminal messages are really just any kind of message that is embedded in another medium so that they go unnoticed by the conscious mind.
It is believed that these messages can be either auditory or visual in nature. They can affect the subconscious mind in a positive or negative way in such a way that they have an effect on later behaviours, thoughts, feelings and attitudes. In fact any type of sustained exposure to subliminal messages or subliminal programming can have a dramatic affect on a person's entire belief and value systems.
Subliminal messages have been studied as far back as 1898 when E.W. Scripture published the paper The New Psychology. Although there have been many studies and experiments with subliminal messages the most widely known is the case study by James Vicary. Vicary's 1957 experiment, conducted in a movie theatre, was the first attempt at using subliminal messages for advertising purposes.
He claimed that by flashing the words "eat popcorn" and "drink coke" sales of the two products rose significantly amongst the movie-goers. His results were never duplicated regardless of many attempts and in later years Vicary admitted that his findings were falsified.
However, the damage was already done and subliminal advertising had entered the public psyche, were later outlawed from television and radio by several countries in 1973 and even investigated by the CIA in 1958!
Although Vicary's experiment was a fraud modern research, using the latest technologies have shown that subliminal messages can affect the brain. Scientists are still reluctant to confirm or deny that these type of hidden commands can act as a means for controlling behaviour.
However, if you look at YouTube or several other video sites you can see evidence of the use of subliminal messages in many advertising campaigns.
The fact that multi-billion dollar companies, with huge advertising budgets, have deliberately embedded certain words and visual images into their advertisements gives one rise to believe that they must have some impact on our behaviours when it comes to purchasing goods!
In fact many illusionists, such as the British born Derren Brown, use subliminal messages extensively to perform seemingly magical feats of mind reading and mental manipulation.
Although subliminal messages are used extensively for self improvement purposes with many positive and life-altering effects, it is yet to be proven (or disproved for that matter) if they have any effect on our buying decisions. We will just have to wait for further research.
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