Subliminal Messages-Banned From The Gov. Legal Or Not??

Question

Consumer preferences play a key role in determining consumer demand for a product. Advertising seeks to strengthen consumer need for a product. At times advertising companies have tried subliminal messaging, which is subtle advertising that intersperses a frame containing a brand name into every fourth frame in a movie; consumers subconsciously register the brand without realizing that they’ve seen it. This type of advertising has proven effective but the government banned it. Should this be so? What if you were given a warning note, before buying a ticket for the movie, saying, “This film contains subtle commercials that may subconsciously alter your consumption preferences.” With full disclosure should subtle advertising still be illegal?

Answer 1

Another urban myth raises its geriatric head again.

Answer 2

It is not legal to sell you a bag of pop corn, how ever there is no law against using this sort of thing to get you to vote for a candidate or make you forget what you were told last week as the truth and the government position has changed.

there is no law against using it in a casino to encourage you to keep putting money into a machine that is not going to pay off any time soon.

Answer 3

There is no evidence that subliminal messages play any role in our decision making.  It's simply hysteria that it is banned at all.