The hypnotist is able to speak to the person's subconscious mind, directly bypassing their normal conscious thoughts and defenses, influencing them on their most basic level of thought. ... The Christopher Nolan movie Inception deals with a similar idea concerning the subconscious. In that movie an elite group of thieves commit corporate espionage by accessing the subconscious mind of their victims and implanting an idea without the target even realizing his mind had been infiltrated. ... Yet there is an important, and similar truth shared by both hypnotism and Inception: the subconscious...

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An observer receives these specific subliminal messages subconsciously without realizing he or she even noticed it. However, there is no information that proves that people are able to learn new ideas through their subconscious state of mind. ... The plan of the experiment was for the messages to reach the audience subconsciously. ... In response to Key's analogy, Walter Weir, a writer in Advertising Age, answered Key with the following response, "Keep in mind also that Kent cigarettes were named after Herbert Kent, a president of Lorillard at the time the cigarettes were introduced." ...

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Whereas, out on the walls and billboards, the ads were once overt and recognizable, TV has resubmerged them, by overwhelming the mind that would perceive them, making it only half-aware . . . . 'It's more of a subconscious or subliminal effect,' observes Fred Baker, a Senior Vice-President at McCann-Ericksen." ...

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Various companies purposely target children with these advertisements in hopes of leaving an imprint on their minds; in hopes of selling more products. ... Most impressionable at this age, children are subconsciously being taught to fiend for products on television; whether it's toys, clothes, or food. ... Advertisers target children with this concept in mind and the purpose of selling as many products as possible. ...

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Advertising is a tool used by businesses to inform us about their products and to persuade us to buy them. Advertisements are all around us: on billboards, in magazines, in newspapers, on the Internet, on airplanes, in shop windows, on posters and banners, on leaflets and so on. Advertisements attem...

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