title: Short- and long-term effects of conscious, minimally conscious and unconscious brand logos.
abstract: Unconsciously presented information can influence our behavior in an experimental context. However, whether these effects can be translated to a daily life context, such as advertising, is strongly debated. What hampers this translation is the widely accepted notion of the short-livedness of unconscious representations. The effect of unconscious information on behavior is assumed to rapidly vanish within a few hundreds of milliseconds. Using highly familiar brand logos (e.g., the logo of McDonald's) as subliminal and supraliminal primes in two priming experiments, we assessed whether these logos were able to elicit behavioral effects after a short (e.g., 350 ms), a medium (e.g., 1000 ms), and a long (e.g., 5000 ms) interval. Our results demonstrate that when real-life information is presented minimally consciously or even unconsciously, it can influence our subsequent behavior, even when more than five seconds pass between the presentation of the minimally conscious or unconscious information and the behavior on which it exerts its influence.
authors: Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
authors: Charlotte
authors: C
authors: Muscarella
authors: Gigliola
authors: G
authors: Brintazzoli
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Gordts
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Soetens
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Van den Bussche
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000329:Advertising; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time; D013997:Time Factors; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult
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