Some consumers are concerned about businesses using covert methods to influence purchasing decisions. They fear that some of the methods used by the advertising media can have such an effect on the ...

In the high-tech world of business, the message is now quicker than the eye. From rapidly flashing slogans on a computer screen to surreptitious exhortations hidden in background music, packages are ...

Counting books caused Julie Stover to stay awake at night. And she discovered, to her dismay, that counting sheep couldn`t make her sleep. So to cure the insomnia she developed while taking inventory ...

Blink and you'll miss them — or at least you think you will. But researchers have found that not only are subliminal messages capable of getting through to an audience, but that the more negative the ...

One of the strangest yet most well-known court cases blaming a band for a fan’s suicide concluded 25 years ago, on Aug. 24, 1990. On trial was the British heavy metal band Judas Priest, who released ...

Here’s how cool I am. Last night, I was at home with my family, watching 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s amusing sitcom (Alec Baldwin rules), on Channel 9. Suddenly, in the middle of the broadcast, my son, Nick, ...

We don’t ever see Pazuzu, the demonic presence that possesses Regan in 'The Exorcist’, right? He’s content to use the youngster like a puppet, spinning her head, spewing up her guts and doing mean ...

I did not overhear that question yesterday while I wandered the expo hall at the annual LeadingAge conference here in Nashville. But perhaps I will next year. That’s because positive subliminal ...

Hollywood’s full of interesting figures with dreams — struggling actors and writers who wait tables, walk dogs or sell insurance on the side. In the 1980s and early ‘90s, Leonard Mlodinow was likely ...