some information on subliminal messaging
This topic got me to thinking about how to influence people's actions without Hollywood-style subliminal messaging. It turns out that it's pretty easy. Check out my post here:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/subliminal-messaging-14083.html
Very easily. Our memories are not designed to be accurate. Nor is consciousness. Our mental abilities were designed to help us function effectively. Denial can be effective.
Here's another classic example: people are very bad at knowing what will make them happy. Many victims of a crime...
Dyslexia isn't my main area of research, but I have done a few projects on the topic. However, all of that has dealt with developmental dyslexia, not adult-onset dyslexia. The only type of adult-onset dyslexia I know of is typically the result of a stroke. It differs from developmental dyslexia...
There are some excellent posts somewhere on the Langauge Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/) about this. I'm too lazy to track it down. It's a neat phenomenon.
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My understanding from psych class is that it doesn't work in the way people usually think of.
However, there is something called "priming." If you see a word like "duck" and then are asked to read aloud a second word, you'll read "quack" faster than "bark". This is true even if the word...
I agree with Evo. There's probably nothing wrong with you, but the stakes here are too high to just hope it goes away. Plus, if it's nothing, you've spent a little bit of money to purchase peace of mind.
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I would largely agree with Pythagorean. There are a lot of things going on in our brains, including things we are not conscious of. If you want to call those processes the "subconscious mind," then that is perfectly fair to do. But I'm not sure what it would mean to "communicate with it." You...