Subliminal advertising really does work, The Telegraph (wrongly) concludes after reporting on a University College London experiment in which words were briefly flashed on a computer screen and ...

The death of Wilson Bryan Key in 2008 received very little comment, nor does Google Scholar turn up many recent discussions of his legacy; the majority of references come from the 1970s and ‘80s, ...

This release is available in French. Montreal, February 22, 2012 – Modern consumers of mass media have long been swayed by the notion that secret, invisible messages are embedded in everything from ...

From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

Counting books caused Julie Stover to stay awake at night. And she discovered, to her dismay, that counting sheep couldn`t make her sleep. So to cure the insomnia she developed while taking inventory ...

IF YOU ever felt paranoid about subliminal messages, you might be right to worry. Images we see but don’t consciously register have been shown to inform people’s decision-making. Joel Voss of ...

IT WAS a stunt that launched a thousand conspiracy theories. Market researcher James Vicary claimed in 1957 that he could get movie-goers to “drink Coca-Cola” and “eat popcorn” by flashing those ...

BBC news anchor Anne McAlpine opened up about being stalked for years by a man who thought she was sending "subliminal messages through the television." ...