In psych class this week we're studying consciousness. This topic includes hypnosis and subliminal messages, and hypnosis happened to be the topic the student presenter talked about. She played a video from Tedtalks on hypnosis that was the Irish mentalist Keith Barry "tricking" the mind of particular audience members.
Since that class I have been hooked on Keith Barry videos. In his show on Discovery called deception he walks the streets of Los Angeles playing "tricks" on fellow pedestrians. After all this watching aside from wondering what messages I've been picking up without knowing it I've also been wondering about priming people for experiments.
Scientists don't want to prime their test subjects because it creates inaccurate data but scientist aren't on the internet running experiments marketers are. The idea is that the marketing images around articles, the keywords that you used to call up the article, even the presentation of the article is influencing the information that you take up from the articles.
Perhaps to get a better understanding of how people are learning this information I should do a bit of research of our understanding of subliminal messaging and priming subjects of studies. This may information may be helpful in not influencing my interviewees in the next few weeks.
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