Subliminal Messaging in Advertising
What is subliminal messaging?
NY Times: Get Out of My Subconscious
- Make an unconscious connection with the consumer
- Hidden messages in media
- Influences how media is perceived
- Ethical - Sell something to the consumer
- Unethical - Unintentional selling of other things
Indigo George
Laura Tramontozzi
Siddhartha Dogra
Spencer Biddle
What isn't subliminal messaging?
- Hypnosis
- Controlling
- Powerful
BBC: Subliminal Images Impact on Brain
- The brain registers subliminal messages
- University College, London
- people registered images if the brain had "Spare capacity"
- Easy task: brain registered 'invisible' object
- Hard task: brain did not show any activity suggesting participants had not registered the subliminal images
Saved by the Bell: The Zack Tapes
- Two experiments - 159 subjects
- Ranked agreement 1-7
One: Awareness
Two: Undetected v detected response
Three: Impact of undetected
Four: Influence
- Klosterman, C. (2014, February 1). Get Out of My Subconscious! Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/magazine/get-out-of-my-subconscious.html?_r=0
- Subliminal images impact on brain. (2007, September 3). Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6427951.stm
- Smith, Kirk H., and Martha Rogers. "Effectiveness of Subliminal Messages in Television Commercials: Two Experiments." Journal of Applied Psychology 79.6 (1994): 866-74. Web.
- www.subliminal-messaging.com
- http://nationalharbor.com/
- Lucas Ocampo. (2010, Jun 16). Ice-cream advertisement Subliminal MEssage [Video file]. Retrieved from www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ulX4QSwjY
- Peter Engel, Tom Tenowich (Writer), & Don Barnhart (Director). (1989). The Zack Tapes. In Peter Engel (Producer), Saved by the Bell. Los Angeles, CA: NBC Productions.
Conclusion
Is it true?
- Not particularly effective
- Supraliminal works better
- Information isn't retained