So my question: Does these subliminal messages really affects one's phyche or Influence them in a BIG??? way?
It's crap. And I'll explain why...
There was a study done some years ago on so called 'subliminal tapes'
The many participants in the study were divided into 4 groups.
Each of the four groups were given commercialy available tapes to listen to.
One group recieved (from memory) a 'lose weight' tape.
Group two recieved a 'no smoking' tape.
Group three recieved the same 'lose weight' tape as group one, except it had the 'no smoking' label.
Group four recieved the 'no smoking' tape with the 'lose weight' label.
Each person in the groups listened to their tapes for a few months, and each person was questioned as to it's effectiveness.
The 'lose weight' people mostly believed that they acctually felt that they lost weight.
Most of the 'no smoking' tape people believed that they craved cigerettes less.
Most of the people with the 'weight loss' tapes that were relabled as 'no smoking' tapes, felt that they had reduced desire for cigerettes.
Most of the people with 'no smoking' tapes with 'weight loss' labels felt that they had a reduced appetite.
As you can see, the plecebo effect is at work here. Nobody had really lost that much weight, or stopped smokeing.
Visual 'sublimal messages' have also proven not to work.
