The subliminal movie images story is bunk, urban legend.
No, actually it is very true and scary as hell.
If this were a.f.u I would cry "MOTTO" at this point.
Could it be that subliminal information effects have been found to be practically null also?
Could be, but the tachiscope experiment left me feeling that there is a lot left unexplained, and much of it at our expense.
Heh. We are dealing with a single `experiment' (not, like, published or peer-reviewed or anything) in an undisclosed location, performed by a market researcher trying to sell the "subliminal projector" in question. Contrast this with follow-up experiments -- which *were* conducted in a scientific fashion -- which found that the effect of the stimulus varied with its perceptibility, and under no conditions had the fabled mind-control effect. Yes, the popcorn story is nifty, but it's totally bogus. I know, I know, all of the psychologists who got negative results were bribed by General Motors... Really, post your views on subliminal advertising to alt.folklore.urban, with a cross-post to sci.skeptic for good measure. I dare you. ;-) Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu