BBC R&D were approached last year by Radio 4 documentary producer Phil Tinline to help with a documentary he was putting together surrounding the myths and truths of subliminal advertising in video.

Millions of people are turning to ‘subliminals’ for self-improvement, from boosting their mood to supposedly growing a few inches, but do these videos cause more harm than good? There is a scene in ...

Subliminal messaging – we’ve all heard about it. But it doesn’t really work, right? New research from Valentin Dragoi’s lab at the University of Texas at Houston suggests that subliminal images can ...

A funny thing happened at a concert hall in Liverpool recently, when two artists attempted to implant a subliminal message in the minds of their audience. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard refuse to ...

The human life is a continuous journey towards achieving desires, and subliminal videos promise to be an ally along the way. An online search on the topic yields hundreds of results that assure one of ...

What is subliminal advertising? David Aaronovitch investigates the mysterious birth of this modern myth and introduces a unique new BBC experiment to try it out. Show more What is subliminal ...

People are more confident about their choices if the message is negative People can perceive subliminal messages, particularly if the message is negative, according to a UK study. In three experiments ...