subliminal messages
Below awareness influence
Subliminal messages are signals—images, sounds, or text—presented below the threshold of conscious awareness, intended to influence thought or behavior without the viewer knowing.
The concept gained notoriety through claims about hidden advertising: They accused the company of embedding subliminal messages in commercials.
Scientific evidence for their effectiveness is weak, but the idea persists in popular culture and conspiracy theories.
- stimuliAgents evoking responses
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- secretConcealed information
- secret codeEncrypted communication system
hidden agenda · hidden · covert · unseen · below the radar · perception · priming · influence · persuasion · mind control · psychology · implicit · suggestions · advertising · cognition · subtext · brainwashing · consumer behavior
- Conspiraciesconspiracy, deep state, new world order, chemtrails, flat earth
- manipulationgaslighting, guilt tripping, blame-shifting, brainwashing, guilt trip
- media effectsmedia influence, media manipulation, media bias, agenda-setting, framing
- music mythsPaul is dead
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
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