The Official Subliminal Messaging Blog

Subliminal messages are everywhere, controversy surrounds them, as do various ridiculous myths and claims about their use – here are some truths about subliminal messaging, and 7 things you didn’t know: It has been used and endorsed by celebrities such as Stephen Speilberg, Tiger Woods, and “self help guru” Anthony Robbins – each claiming it [...]

Here is a study conducted in 1978 on the effects of subliminal messaging upon weight loss: Two experiments were conducted using two groups of 26 and 30 women. The women were over 15% overweight. They were divided into 2 groups, being the ‘subliminal group’ and a ‘control group’. Both groups were given some information on [...]

Here is the results of a subliminal research study by Lee, I., Tyrer, P. and Horn, S., as published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in1983: 32 patients were being treated for agoraphobia by watching a video twice a week for a total duration of 3 weeks. The 32 patients were split into 4 groups, [...]

The most widely known peice of research into subliminal messaging comes from a market researcher called James Vicary. The study is perhaps most famous as it was one of the first of its kind – a large scale investigation into the power of subliminal messages conducted on the public, but also because of the alarming [...]

Here is the summary of a psychological research study into subliminal messaging and its influence to help stop smoking. The study was conducted by Palmatier and Bornstein: Thirty-four people in a three week group therapy session to help smoking cesssation took part in the study. The therapy sessions were carried out as normal, however, after [...]