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Joined: Feb 18, 2007 Age: 17 Posts: 1750 Location: The United States of Whatever
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:
It looks like the CGI logo is supposed to be matted over whatever news clip they're about to show. In this case it looks like the logo was covering a McCain story but was cut off prematurely and another news clip was played instead. I don't know if that's the fault of the network or the video's editor.
Joined: Apr 24, 2008 Posts: 434 Location: Kentucky, USA
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:38 am Post subject:
spudnik wrote:
Fox Noise Related, Bill O'Reilly Flips Out NSFW
Check out the DANCE REMIX of that video... perfectly done! This has to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life!
_________________ Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.---George Bernard Shaw
Thats hilarious, I am going to save that to my you tube favorites, Bill Orally is nuts _________________ The Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh
Really, subliminal messaging has been found to be completely ineffective (the famous "buy popcorn" was a hoax from a guy trying to sell subliminals to advertisers, he then took their money and left) and if Fox is actually wasting their time putting stuff like that in; well, they're dumber than I thought.
Um, no. Subliminal images are not completely ineffective. Here is a smattering of some of the research published in the last year. I'm not saying that the Fox thing itself is effective, but there is a lot of evidence that subliminal stimuli can have an effect on mood, attitude, and behavior.
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: Psychol Sci. 2008 Apr;19(4):385-91.
The secret life of emotions.
Ruys KI, Stapel DA.
Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER) at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
The possibility of unconsciously evoked emotions is often denied because awareness of an emotion's cause is considered to be precisely what produces the emotion. However, we argue that because emotional responding is important for successful living, both global and specific emotional responses can be induced without awareness. The present research used quick and super-quick subliminal priming techniques, and cognitive, feelings, and behavioral measures, to test this hypothesis. Our results show that both global moods and specific emotions can be evoked without conscious awareness of their cause.
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Scand J Psychol. 2008 Feb;49(1):19-29.
Persistent effects of subliminal stimulation: sex differences and the effectiveness of debriefing.
Birgegard A, Sohlberg S.
Resource Center for Eating Disorders, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Persistent and non-trivial effects of unconscious stimuli have been reported (Sohlberg & Birgegard, 2003). This raises the ethical question of whether informing participants about such stimuli effectively returns them to a normal state. Two experiments (sex-mixed, N = 70 and 118) tested two kinds of debriefing to participants following subliminal (tachistoscopic) attachment-related or control stimulation. Measures were the Beck Depression Inventory, Structural Analysis of Social Behavior, and Retrospective Attachment. Results showed persistent effects. Simple debriefing about the stimulus was effective in preventing these, while more elaborate debriefing also describing the effects and mechanisms for them was less effective. Persistent effects were also strongly related to participant sex, but debriefing effects were similar in men and women with regard to the purpose of debriefing. The findings have implications for ethical recommendations for subliminal research, and suggest that this unexplored area requires more attention.
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Science. 2008 Mar 21;319(5870):1639.
Preparing and motivating behavior outside of awareness.
Aarts H, Custers R, Marien H.
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, Netherlands.
The mere activation of the idea of a behavioral act moves the human body without the person consciously deciding to take action. In an experiment, we showed that people subliminally primed with the concept of exertion were faster to squeeze a hand grip forcefully but expended more effort when the subliminal primes were directly accompanied by consciously visible positive stimuli. These findings demonstrate the human capacity to rely on mental processes in preparing and motivating behavior outside of awareness.
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Cereb Cortex. 2008 Apr 9.
Activity in Face-Responsive Brain Regions is Modulated by Invisible, Attended Faces: Evidence from Masked Priming.
Kouider S, Eger E, Dolan R, Henson RN.
Laboratoire des Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, CNRS/EHESS/DEC-ENS, 75005 Paris, France.
It is often assumed that neural activity in face-responsive regions of primate cortex correlates with conscious perception of faces. However, whether such activity occurs without awareness is still debated. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in conjunction with a novel masked face priming paradigm, we observed neural modulations that could not be attributed to perceptual awareness. More specifically, we found reduced activity in several classic face-processing regions, including the "fusiform face area," "occipital face area," and superior temporal sulcus, when a face was preceded by a briefly flashed image of the same face, relative to a different face, even when 2 images of the same face differed. Importantly, unlike most previous studies, which have minimized awareness by using conditions of inattention, the present results occurred when the stimuli (the primes) were attended. By contrast, when primes were perceived consciously, in a long-lag priming paradigm, we found repetition-related activity increases in additional frontal and parietal regions. These data not only demonstrate that fMRI activity in face-responsive regions can be modulated independently of perceptual awareness, but also document where such subliminal face-processing occurs (i.e., restricted to face-responsive regions of occipital and temporal cortex) and to what extent (i.e., independent of the specific image).
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I know how you feel: task-irrelevant facial expressions are spontaneously processed at a semantic level.
Preston SD, Stansfield RB.
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Previous studies have demonstrated that emotions are automatically processed. Even with subliminal presentations, subjects involuntarily mimic specific facial expressions, are influenced by the valence of a preceding emotion during judgments, and exhibit slowed responses to personally meaningful emotions; these effects are due to reflexive mimicry, unconscious carryover of valence, and attentional capture, respectively. However, perception-action effects indicate that rapid processing should involve deep, semantic-level representations of emotion (e.g., "fear"), even in the absence of a clinical emotion disorder. To test this hypothesis, we developed an emotional Stroop task (Emostroop) in which subjects responded nonverbally to emotion words superimposed over task-irrelevant images of faces displaying congruent or incongruent emotional expressions. Subjects reliably responded more slowly to incongruent than to congruent stimuli, and this interference was related to trait measures of emotionality. Rapid processing of facial emotions spontaneously activates semantic, content-rich representations at the level of the specific emotion.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Dec 11;104(50):19757-61.
Subliminal exposure to national flags affects political thought and behavior.
Hassin RR, Ferguson MJ, Shidlovski D, Gross T.
Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.
Political thought and behavior play an important role in our lives, from ethnic tensions in Europe, to the war in Iraq and the Middle Eastern conflict, to parliamentary and presidential elections. However, little is known about how the individual's political attitudes and decisions are shaped by subtle national cues that are so prevalent in our environment. We report a series of experiments that show that subliminal exposure to one's national flag influences political attitudes, intentions, and decisions, both in laboratory settings and in "real-life" behavior. Furthermore, this manipulation consistently narrowed the gap between those who score high vs. low on a scale of identification with Israeli nationalism. The first two experiments examined participants' stance toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Experiment 3 examined voting intentions and actual voting in Israel's recently held general elections. The results portray a consistent picture: subtle reminders of one's nationality significantly influence political thought and overt political behavior.
Joined: Aug 04, 2007 Posts: 706 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida USA
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:43 am Post subject:
There was a time in the US when subliminal messages were illegal, but the deregulation of the media in the late 1980s did away with that and most other regulations regarding broadcasting... it's perfectly legal under today's law, albeit quite unethical... _________________ The lives of the wicked should be made short.- Sweeney Todd
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