1960s Federal Government prohibited subliminal advertising., page 1

History lesson we should all know, I wonder if this is being abused now that tech has opened the floodgates.

NSA's Subliminal Posthypnotic Scripts

Quite a read, but well worth it if your into this sort of stuff. I had to take a break before continueing.

In 1957, Vance Packard published a book called
"The Hidden Pursuaders"

Its still available on Amazon after 40 + years

www.amazon.com...

/\/ight\/\/ing

You want proof? here it is

www.subliminal-power.com...

(This is a link to a FAQ that describes a test conducted)

This company was recently featured on CNN, MSN, and CNET

Originally posted by TheConservative

The most famous experiment involved flashing the phrases "drink more coke" and "I want popcorn" for just 100-milliseconds in front of a movie audience. Nobody "saw" the messages, however popcorn sales shot up 57.8% and coke sales rocketed 18.1%. And that was with just one message. You can find many more proven experiments with a simple Google search.

I may get this program to see if it actually works. I have never had somebody prove to me that subliminal messaging exists, an works, but I believe that it may.

This has been debunked for years now, yet people still hold on to it as being the truth. James Vicary, who coined the term subliminal advertising, conducted several experiments with subliminal advertising and simply LIED about the results. He was unable to reproduce his claims, so there is simply no proof that subliminal advertising actually works. I think the FCC was just playing it safe, the whole ‘better safe than sorry’ motif.

www.snopes.com...

Originally posted by Final_Wave
This has been debunked for years now, yet people still hold on to it as being the truth. James Vicary, who coined the term subliminal advertising, conducted several experiments with subliminal advertising and simply LIED about the results. He was unable to reproduce his claims, so there is simply no proof that subliminal advertising actually works. I think the FCC was just playing it safe, the whole ‘better safe than sorry’ motif.

www.snopes.com...

Wow, though I thought it was bunk (the rest of this thread) I did believe it was possible. I've never heard of snopes...Could you post another link?

Originally posted by junglejake

Originally posted by Final_Wave
This has been debunked for years now, yet people still hold on to it as being the truth. James Vicary, who coined the term subliminal advertising, conducted several experiments with subliminal advertising and simply LIED about the results. He was unable to reproduce his claims, so there is simply no proof that subliminal advertising actually works. I think the FCC was just playing it safe, the whole ‘better safe than sorry’ motif.

www.snopes.com...

Wow, though I thought it was bunk (the rest of this thread) I did believe it was possible. I've never heard of snopes...Could you post another link?

You've never heard of snopes before? hehe, they have been around since at least 1997 and debunked thousands of urban legends/rumors. They have valid sources (listed at the bottom of their pages usually) such as:

Haberstroh, Jack. Ice Cube Sex.
Notre Dame: CrossRoads Books, 1994. ISBN 0-940121-17-4 (pp. 7-10, 130).

Key, Wilson B. Subliminal Seduction.
New York: Signet, 1973.

Rogers, Stuart. "How a Publicity Blitz Created the Myth of Subliminal Advertising."
Public Relations Quarterly. Winter 1993 (pp. 12-17).

I don't have any other links on hand as I've never done much research on the issue other than a few papers in college. Snopes is quite trustable though, I havn’t found any big errors or mistakes they have made yet, and considering how much time and effort they have spent into debunking each legend, I would trust them any day over most news sources.

I came to the conclusion that subliminal advertisements work on the mental awareness of the intended audience. I.e. if the audience actually BELIEVES in subliminal messages and such, they will actually allow themselves to be lulled into it. Sort of like hypnosis.

[Edited on 17-1-2004 by Final_Wave]

Originally posted by junglejake

Originally posted by Final_Wave
This has been debunked for years now, yet people still hold on to it as being the truth. James Vicary, who coined the term subliminal advertising, conducted several experiments with subliminal advertising and simply LIED about the results. He was unable to reproduce his claims, so there is simply no proof that subliminal advertising actually works. I think the FCC was just playing it safe, the whole �better safe than sorry� motif.

www.snopes.com...

Wow, though I thought it was bunk (the rest of this thread) I did believe it was possible. I've never heard of snopes...Could you post another link?

stop relying on snopes.. they are wrong again as usual.
snopes is not a reliable source.. they rely on other sources such as books that are not accurate.. notice they did not actually state the law that prohibits it.. because guess what.. it never passed.. there is no law as they stated..
they are wrong.

It doesn't matter that you don't believe in subliminal messages or not, they do. Here is the proof, now stop refuting stuff you do not know about. It only makes look more ignorant than you are.

This one is the best. At top of page right click background, then select all
co.water.usgs.gov...

Odd Press Statement
September 19, 2000
www.fcc.gov...

About not sending "wrong subliminals"
www.cdc.gov...

Want more reliable sources than say government, how about The History of Subliminal Messages .
www.umich.edu...

Evidently it is real enough to issue a press release about.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
www.fcc.gov...

For more info, search for "subliminal messages .gov", in your prefered search engine. Or if you really like to read, try the same search but replace .gov with .mil

[edit on 12-10-2005 by ADVISOR]

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