He claimed that inserting text or images into his movies would increase his theater sales by luring the subconscious mind into buying his products (Pratkanis, 1992). ... The ultimate purpose for this stimulus is to bypass the conscious mind and embed information into the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind has been known to have a greater ability to understand the hidden information. ... It may also be played below audible volumes so that it is undetected by the conscious mind, and received by only the subconscious. ... Research has shown that certain stimuli can influence the subconsciou...

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Bernays strengthened Freud's application of consumer behavior by establishing the idea of collective or group mind, which he believed exhibited the vast possibilities of behavior manipulation in the market. ... In the large, free, and very saturated economy that capitalism has constructed, a brand and product's "top of mind" awareness is the most crucial feature for success. ... This type of recall is visceral and natural, pleasing the id and subconscious yearnings rather than an act of cognitive functioning. These goals of ads reflect the very nature in which consumers vi...

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Of freedom of the mind. ... Finding truth (and thus everything that it is) is the ultimate subconscious goal of all struggling. ... When these things are reacted to and conformed to by behavior in some way, it indicates a mind in a limited bubble, bound by the illusion of duality -- and in this way, not privy to ultimate truth; and in this way, not free, subconsciously lonely, and in the dark -- all, obviously, to varying degrees with each person, depending on how much, for whatever reason, he focuses on his duality and reacts to it. ... In this way, people have control of and react t...

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DesCartes stated that he had no way of being certain that everything he perceived was nothing more than something he created subconsciously in his mind, such as a in dream. ... The mind does not occupy space, therefore there are two types of things, one being the mind, and the other being pieces of extended substance. Anything that is not part of the mind is extended substance. This presents the query of how the mind communicates with the extended substance that is the brain, creating a mind/body paradox. ... It has been suggested that if the mind and the extended substance are separate th...

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Surrealist ideas often conform to anti-logical depictions under a subconscious influence. ... Perhaps by painting on an almost miniature scale Dali meant to capture a composition of images that could, for instance, be projected in the mind as a dream and be as intimate as possible. ... Accommodations is an expression of the subconscious in free form ...

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Each idea about human beings thinking consciously or even subconsciously about crime correlate with one another to determine what is a greater stimulus on people developing criminal deviance, nature or nurture. ... This is contrast to sociological theories because with psychological aspects of behavior we just focus on the individuals experience and how it changed their state of mind. ... The id being the subconscious domain featuring our innate desires and drives, the ego being the only conscious method balancing the id and superego, which is developed through early social attachments. ... Th...

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He tends to have a serious look and complements it with a very rough and loud tone using horrifying words in order to put fear into the minds of his opponents. ... As people watch these abnormal men, especially young boys, it subconsciously plants the idea into these kids minds that these wrestlers fighting each other in the ring are the definition of what it means to be a man in today's society. ... These action figures have several male attributes that subconsciously convince young adults, typically boys, to believe being a man is all about being aggressive. ... The corporation also exp...

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However, Jim's subconscious picked up on the images and triggered his sensation of hunger. The theater also released the scent of popcorn throughout the room in an extremely small dose to stimulate Jim subconsciously. ... Once again, these signals were only picked up by Jim's subconscious senses. ... "Mind Writer" is a well-known subliminal series by Dr. ... Subliminal messages are words or images with the intent of going beneath the level of consciousness and causing a subconscious effect on the perceiver (Myer 141). ...

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Griffith, he naturally and almost subconsciously was able to make this happen without knowing for the most part what he was doing. ... The eye therefore subconsciously recognizes this cinematic rhythm and in turn is pleased by it. ... Thus Griffith ties 4 or 5 different locations in the same amount of different frames into one justified set of actions that easily makes sense to the viewer subconsciously, but complexly. ... Keeping in mind that the eye will eventually get bored of the same shot, or same characters posed in the same position, the director must add something else. ...

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Freud would later become known as the father of psychoanalysis and publish many papers and books illustrating his findings on religious effects, dreams and the subconscious, as well as what he would call "The Oedipus Complex" - the relationship between children and their parent of the opposite sex. ... The idea of repressed memories subconsciously dictating our actions in life has been regarded by many successful psychotherapists as the 'quackery of the 20th century' (Pierre). ... Sigmund Freud held the idea that memories or emotions can be subconsciously repressed, and later on in ...

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It is important when dealing with racial feminist discrimination, that one approaches the subject with a more antiracial frame of mind than one of multiculturalism. ... The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines internalization: to incorporate (as values or patterns of culture) within the self as conscious or subconscious guiding principles through learning or socialization. Not only have white women, in particular, begun to internalize certain stereotypes subconsciously, but they have been taught not to see the privileges they have compared to other races. ... We internalize these false teac...

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I also tried to apply the theories first of all to myself, and I devoted time every day for self-analysis, since I could not make universal statements about human mind that didn't apply to my own mind. Another reason why I had to rely on case studies is because the subconscious can be expressed only in ways that are indirect and unique for each individual, which make it impossible to use devices in order to measure or detect it. I was working in a totally new ground, trying to show that aberrations of the mind lie within the mind itself. ... You see, I was primarily working with people...

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From time to time, we take buses minding our own business, thinking about what we are going to do after reaching the final destination: what homework is due tonight; should I ask him or her to have dinner, etc. ... Everything from our parents to the media ha taught us to avoid strangers for safety since a young and tender age. it could be argued that the notion of not talking to strangers is a level of subconscious defense that was embedded subtly into our education since we were small, and that the reason why people feel discomfort in certain situations when we are surrounded by unknown faces...

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In the same study, 10% of the cases studied included the process of coercion by the male (Beres, 771), meaning that the woman never officially consented or changed her mind about the act of having sex, but it happened regardless, whether from full-blown rape, or the woman "giving in" to the man's persistence. While many of these men fitting somewhere on this spectrum would not consider what they did to be rape or coercion, they make no reference to the woman changing her mind about intercourse in their stories. ... Men are also put under conscious and subconscious pressure from...

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These two levels of the story are linked by the two hallucinations the Op encounters which gives the reader an in-depth view into the psychological reality of the Op's state of mind. It also expresses the detective's obsessive nature with his work, as well as his subconscious realization that an unqualified victory is not acceptable in his struggle to rid this town of its evils. ... However, Hammett's narration never strays away from the Continental Op's perspective, yet the reader never fully enters the Op's mind. ...

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According to Damiaan, obsession is defined as undesirable ideas or actions that are repetitive in a persons' daily state of mind. ... Celebrity obsession is dangerous and harmful mostly because during their moments of obsession they are not in a right state of mind to make decisions, thus resulting in making the same decisions as the celebrity they obsess over. ... Each person whether subconsciously or not, strives to amount to the level of beauty that is defined by media. ...

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The philosophy of treating health at both the physical and psychological levels promotes vitality, stimulates immunity and leads to a more balanced lifestyle and state of mind- (98-99). ... (Stevenson, 1999, p 143) The analytic mind would question the validity of the relationship between olfaction, memory, emotion, and mood. ... At this point, a memory maybe triggered because our subconscious receives and reacts to the nerve message before we actually think about what we smell. ...

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The human mind is amazingly intricate, no single perspective, whether biological, behavioral or emotional can tell the whole story. ... First is, Biological, followers of this theory look to the body to explain the mind. ... The subconscious is where information that is not currently in your conscious but can be retrieved by special recall. ... The human mind and its ability for cognitive mental processes like perception; memory, language, problem solving and abstract thinking are what make it (the mind) so amazing. ...

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Similarly, in the Allegory of the Cave, Plato emphasizes the need for people to push beyond the chains which imprison an unenlightened mind in order to crawl out of the dark, captivating cave and move towards the light of true knowledge and understanding (Plato, 533). ... This statement shows that much like in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," a person is not truly free unless he is able to free himself of the binds of his own mind by educating oneself about the surrounding world (Plato, 529). ... Maya Angelou's "Graduation," also backs up the importance of treatin...

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Surrealism stresses the subconscious or irrational significance of imagery and metaphors in order to express unconscious –visions free from conscious rational control– and imaginative, strange and mysterious dream elements. ... Dali found that flames seemed to have a life and mind of their own, giving an almost hypnotizing sensation over the viewer, representing erotic impulses and desires of the female figure. ...

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Eyes trained on my reflection, I refuse to look at my surroundings but am subconsciously aware of the other competitors staring me down, sizing me up. ... This pressure originates from the shared goal each ballerina has in mind, and that is to win. ...

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I concluded that this eye behavior allowed the other party to return their attention to something that was subconsciously considered more comfortable for them. ... As I did my observations on campus, I kept the theory of Modigliani's in mind. ...

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The claim that diarists are only writers and write with the sole intention of unburdening their minds through private expression is not necessarily true. ... Perhaps James' seemingly subdued collection of her "geyser of emotions" is due to the fact that she subconsciously believes that not just women, but men specifically will too be reading her thoughts. ... " Jean Strouse, in her biography of James, explains that this sign-off is an early sign of "an energetic if self-depreciating spirit and a lively mind at work on its limited surroundings.... An enthusiastic suppo...

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Several scientific theories show no observations of a homosexual gene, but believe there could be certain happenings in one's life that could change one's sex subconsciously. ... They are to stay with this person for long parts of the day and everyday with just friendship in mind. ... This is supposed to help change the minds of homosexuals, but often leaves the person in depression and responsible for suicidal ideation (Born 1). ...

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It is what is reported and how its reported that would make a difference to people's perception bearing in mind that most people have not being victims of crime themselves and all they know about crime is based on hearsay. ... People, consciously or subconsciously have anxieties about what is being reported, and the media have been criticised for these anxieties about crime and disorder over the years. ... No matter how crime and the criminal justice system is reported people will make up their own minds based not only on what has been reported but their own experiences too....

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