Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Subliminal Advertising

This may or may not be inappropriate but I found it online the other night and I found it to be pretty pertainant to the discussion of subliminal visual stimuli/extremely hilarious. Enjoy. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7f79n_CRN8

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Val

Sunday, March 29, 2009

The WTF Blanket

Kind of random, but I just saw this video on YouTube and thought it was hilarious. Not sure the techniques they're using are very persuasive! I think our groups' ways of selling the Snuggie were much better. :)

Monday, March 2, 2009

Rico the smart dog

I absolutely loooove howstuffworks.com and there's one article on there about a border collie named Rico who appears to have a vocabulary of 200 words. They performed some tests on him to see if it was actually true. The article also references Clever Hans. Apparently they isolated that variable to show that Rico doesn't pick up on subconscious cues like Clever Hans. Pretty impressive!

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/dogs-understand-words1.htm