A really fascinating, and in several ways disturbing study crossed my desk a couple of weeks ago. Authored by Jennifer Harris, the legendary John Bargh, and Kelly Brownwell, the article is called “Priming Effects of Television Food Advertising on Eating Behavior”. It was published earlier this this year in Health Psychology. Abstract and [...]
Vaughan over at Mind Hacks published a post the other day about how we tend to synchronize our blinking when watching video stories. He strongly endorses a podcast on the subject, which I confess I haven’t listened to yet.
But I did have a chance to download the referenced study by Nakano et al. entitled “Synchronization [...]
The title of this post refers to a December 2007 article in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by psychologist Ran R. Hassin and colleagues, “Subliminal exposure to national flags affects political thought and behavior”. The full article is available here.
Unlike most academic article titles, this one says it all, thank you. [...]