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- From: collene@unisql.UUCP (Collene Pearce)
- Newsgroups: sci.psychology
- Subject: subliminal tapes
- Message-ID: <4199@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:16:36 GMT
- Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA
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- I have probably in excess of 25 subliminal audio and audio/video tapes
- at home and they have never worked for me. For quite some time, I thought
- that I was simply blocking the messages (that my mind was not the type
- which responded to this sort of stimuli) and that they worked very well
- for the average person.
-
- Then recently, I was discussing subliminals with someone who explained
- that _I_ wasn't the problem, but rather that these things just don't work.
- He said there has never been any real scientific evidence that any form of
- subliminal messages have ever worked (he said the old coke-a-cola story
- is an urban legend). He said (he had heard) that here is a new method of
- recording the audio tapes now that they may have a better chance of having
- an effect on the user, but didn't know what brand that would be and did
- have details of the new technique.
-
- So, I'm asking for a second opinion. I'd like to hear your thoughts on
- the use/effectiveness of subliminal audio and audio/video tapes. Have
- there ever been any scientific studies done on this? Also, individual
- results would certainly be of interest to me. If anyone has ever been
- able to use these things effectively, then how did you do it?
-
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