| Abstract: | Continuing the studies from the NYU Research Center for Mental Health on the effect of subliminal stimuli upon perception, the examiner tests the effect of such auditory stimuli upon the production of fantasy, in this instance, inventive stories. Fantasy stories subsequent to exposure to subliminal speech were analyzed in terms of symbolic representations or transformed derivatives of the original stimuli. The result generally confirms the effect of subliminal stimulation on thinking and the findings are related to the psychoanalytic theory of primary and secondary thinking. 20 refs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
