Re: taboos

From: Chris Taylor (Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 17:57:37 BST

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    I heard (so you can safely ignore it) that at a cinema, popcorn sales in
    the interval went up when the preceding show had single frames of
    burgers cut in...

    The 'rats' one was iffy - not really subliminal so much as just trying
    to engender an association without breaking broadcasting regulations (if
    it was subliminal, by definition we wouldn't have seen it even when made
    aware of its presence).

    I'm not sure you could program this way, but you could perhaps trigger.
    I'd have to see proper studies though (which I haven't).

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