Some consumers are concerned about businesses using covert methods to influence purchasing decisions. They fear that some of the methods used by the advertising media can have such an effect on the ...

A Costco customer believes that the bulk-retailer is using subliminal messaging to sell granola bars. Josh (@journeywithjosh) posted a TikTok photo slideshow that’s accrued over 25,000 views. In it, ...

The European Commission provides examples of subliminal techniques (visual and auditory subliminal messages, subvisual and subaudible queueing, embedded images, misdirection and temporal manipulation) ...

Banned subliminal messages that could potentially manipulate users' subconscious have appeared in spam, according to PandaLabs. Users opening the message see what appears to be a normal advertisement ...

Recently, I holed up indoors with my family watching old sci fi movies, including The Puppet Masters, a story about alien blobs that sit on people's backs and wire themselves into human nervous ...

Scientists and thinkers have been studying the unconscious mind — the part of the brain where things like memories and motivation occur — for hundreds of years. You may have heard of advertisers using ...

Bush claimed that this was an accidental result, and brushed aside accusations of subliminal advertising as "weird and bizarre" conspiracy theories. When pressed, Alex Castellanos, the ad's creator, ...