One reason for you having an impulse to buy those products could have been because you just felt like some popcorn and soda. Another reason would be that your brain picked up a hidden message, also known as a subliminal message that was flashed during the movie at about a frame length of 1/3000th of a second, telling you to buy the products. Subliminal perception, which is the "perception of stimuli about which a person has no awareness" (Encarta 98), affects the way the human brain perceiv

One example can be how tobacco product manufacturers attempt to manipulate people who purchase tobacco products. On the cover of Camel cigarette packs, there is a man with an erect penis embedded in the front leg of the camel. On the cover of Marlboro cigarette packs there are two KKK clansmen holding up the banner that says "VENI VEDI VECI", which translates from Italian to mean "I came, I saw, I conquered". These two examples cannot usually be detected unless you are told of them beforehand or if you extensively scrutinize every last detail of the art.

Although all of the examples above clearly point out room for suspicion, hardly any of these points of interests were effective in spreading their message. In the test James Vicary performed in the theater in 1957, "... Vicary lied. When he was challenged to repeat the test, he could produce no significant increase in Coca-Cola or popcorn sales. Eventually he confessed that he had falsified the data from his first experiments, and some critics doubt that he actually conducted them at all." (Subliminal Advertising, 2

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