Post by Mech on Apr 3, 2005 21:11:45 GMT -5
Subliminal messages gain their potential influence/power from the fact that they may be able to cirumvent the critical functions of the conscious mind, and it has often been argued that subliminal suggestions are therefore potentially more powerful than ordinary suggestions. This route to influence or persuasion would be akin to auto-suggestion or hypnosis wherein the subject is encouraged to be (or somehow induced to be) relaxed so that suggestions are directed to deeper parts of the mind; some observers have argued that the unconscious mind is incapable of critical refusal of hypnotic or subliminal suggestions. Research findings do not support the conclusion that subliminal suggestions are peculiarly powerful. Although many pyschogical studies on Subliminal influence are fundermentally fawled in that they often present the subliminal influence in a limited presentation. That is, over a short period of time a limited amount of subliminal influence is presented to subjects who are then asked to continue with the experiment. Preponnents of the power of subliminal influence will state the influence is generated overtime.
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