Comments on: Subliminal Advertising Works http://www.businesspundit.com/subliminal-advertising-works/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: laurence haughton http://www.businesspundit.com/subliminal-advertising-works/comment-page-1/#comment-301 laurence haughton Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:41:10 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2430#comment-301 If you study the (new) science of heuristics you'll realize that most people are not aware that they are being manipulated through their cognative biases. Forget subliminal ads. Worry about how opinion shapers (including marketers) use the flaws in your reasoning to sway, convince, and even brainwash you. If you study the (new) science of heuristics you’ll realize that most people are not aware that they are being manipulated through their cognative biases.

Forget subliminal ads. Worry about how opinion shapers (including marketers) use the flaws in your reasoning to sway, convince, and even brainwash you.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.businesspundit.com/subliminal-advertising-works/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Lisa Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:48:07 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2430#comment-300 "But that just raises the larger ethical question of... if we can manipulate the biological basis for decision making, should we? Some would argue that marketing is just that, already." While marketing is just that, the difference is that we are aware that we are being marketed to. We see or hear the message being sent to us and have the choice to accept it or reject it (even if acceptance is passive). Subliminal messages don't offer us a way to reject the message. If this was legal, I wonder which company would cross the line into brainwashing first? :) “But that just raises the larger ethical question of… if we can manipulate the biological basis for decision making, should we? Some would argue that marketing is just that, already.”

While marketing is just that, the difference is that we are aware that we are being marketed to. We see or hear the message being sent to us and have the choice to accept it or reject it (even if acceptance is passive).

Subliminal messages don’t offer us a way to reject the message. If this was legal, I wonder which company would cross the line into brainwashing first? :)

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