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Your decisions can be affected by fleeting images and what you currently see

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3b/never_leave_your_room/

by thorax • 17 years ago

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joe_the_user• 17 years ago

Ah,

So Subliminal Seduction does work, after all.

Actually, Tor Norrestranders describes in his book The User Illusion how suggestibility by images has been well know to psychology more or less forever BUT how after a movie company began using automated suggestion machines in theaters, the psychology profession essentially suppressed its belief in the power suggestion because this possibility made the profession extremely sinister to the average person.

justindz• 17 years ago

As a product owner, I am keenly aware of the correlation between sales people and susceptibility to this phenomena.

Hexstream• 17 years ago

Related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befugtgikMg

taless• 17 years ago

So does beer, music, naked woman

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