Talk:Subliminal stimuli

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Priming

In order to study the effects of subliminal stimuli, researchers will often prime the participants with specific stimuli and determine if those stimuli elicit different responses. One study was interested in fear stimuli compared to other negative emotional stimuli. This study found that when participants were primed with fear stimuli compared to happy stimuli, the target was rated as more unpleasant by participants primed with the fear stimuli. Also, when primed with fear and disgust subliminal stimuli, the participants rated the target as being less genuine. This study found significant differences in the types of ratings based on the type of subliminal stimuli the participants were primed with..

Another study exhibited similar findings in that cognitive functions can be affected by subliminal cognitive effects, especially due to emotion. When primed with a subliminal angry face, participants appraised negative events as due to other people, and when primed with a sad face, participants appraised the same events as due to the situation.

A third study looked at whether or not subliminal exposure to sexual stimuli would affect men and women in the same way. Results indicate that both men and women had an increase in sex-related thoughts due to the stimuli. However, the subliminal sexual prime had no effect on men in their report of sexual arousal, whereas women reported lower levels of sexual arousal.

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I excised this paragraph from the section "Self-help audio recordings" as it talked about the placebo effect more than subliminal stimuli. I have left it here for posterity to be either reworked or used in Placebo effect.

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Another study investigated the effects of self-help tapes on self-esteem and memory. Volunteers who wanted to improve their self-esteem or memory were recruited and completed several self-esteem and memory tests before being given a self-help tape, which was either a self-esteem audio tape or a memory audio tape, but there was a fifty-fifty chance of the tape being mislabelled. After listening to the tapes daily for five weeks, subjects came back and repeated the self-esteem and memory tests. There was no significant change from the first set of testing to the second, although subjects believed that their self-esteem or memory improved based on which tape they believed they had, even when they had a mislabeled tape (those who had tapes labeled as self-esteem tapes felt their self-esteem had increased and the same trend was observed with memory). This effect is often referred to as a placebo. There are multiple other studies on subliminal self-help with different measures and have given similar results.

I have also removed the subsection "Associative advertising" as it was not cited. Feel free to bring it back if there are reliable sources to use there. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 05:04, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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