Subliminal advertising -- placing fleeting or hidden images in commercial content in the hopes that viewers will process them unconsciously -- doesn't work. Recent research suggests that consumers do ...

Who ya gonna blame for the “subliminal” message in George W. Bush’s campaign advertisement that got pulled off the air because it flashes the word “RATS” across the screen while Al Gore’s Medicare ...

MOSCOW -- Deep within a Russian television advertisement for a local beer, Klinskoye, lurked a split-second message for another thirst-quencher: Pepsi. An image of Palmolive Fruit Essentials soap was ...

As much a backhanded indictment of easy access to DV cameras, motion graphics software, and Final Cut Pro as the slippery advertising tactics it targets, this kitchen-table doc aims to expose the ...

I DIDN’T CHOOSE to write this column. It’s the product of careful conditioning by the neuroscientists at the Coca-Cola company whose latest ad campaign for Sprite has done something to my prefrontal ...

We believe many Americans would express the view that subliminal messages in advertising -- messages in video or sound so faint or fleeting we're not consciously aware of them -- are illegal or ...

Subliminal TikToks, which contain hidden personal affirmations, are exploding on the platform, with the hashtag #subliminal reaping more than 600 million views. Tik Tok TikTokers eager for more ...

Based on the short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson, They Live stars the late professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper as a drifter named Nada (Spanish for nothing). He finds a ...

The 1990 subliminal message trial against Judas Priest was, frankly, dumb. For those of you who don’t know the story, here’s a brief summary: in December of 1985, two young men in Nevada, Raymond ...