Hi
Just wanted to point out two things you might have missed, Kaiden.
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Originally posted by Kaiden:
There's a lot of contraversy over subliminals. The famous "drink coke, eat popcorn" study was a fraud, which never happened.
From your recommended site:
You see, Vicary lied about the results of his experiment. When he was challenged to repeat the test by the president of the Psychological Corporation, Dr. Henry Link, Vicary's duplication of his original experiment produced no significant increase in popcorn or Coca-Cola sales. Eventually Vicary confessed that he had falsified the data from his first experiments, and some critics have since expressed doubts that he actually conducted his infamous Ft. Lee experiment at all.
It points out that some critics doubt that he did conduct the experiment, but doesn't go so far as to confirm it.
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Originally posted by Kaiden:
Double-blind studies show the power of subliminals to be more an effect of the user's belief than the tape's unheard messages.
I was pondering this one. Since photoreading seems to use the same principles as subliminals, this statement implies that they have little impact, and work mainly on the user's belief. Yet photoreading has been shown to work on all materials. Furthermore, there is the phenomenon of direct learning, and that cannot be down to just belief, I think.
KWLee
