

Mine, shaker and lick for example, would lead a tester to offering salt as the most likely choice. In it, those being tested are given three words and are asked to come up with another word that serves to tie the other three together. Afterwards, both groups were asked to take the Remote Associate Test (RAT) which is a standard psychological exam used to test for creativity in people and sometimes to gauge degrees of insight. One group engaged in a meditation session while the other simply sat and relaxed. In the first experiment, two groups of volunteers were enlisted. They have, as they describe in their paper published in Consciousness and Cognition, found through running two experiments, that engaging in meditation appears to open the mind to new insights which allows people to better remember subliminal messages they have received. Now, new research by a team of psychologists and anthropologists from the Netherlands and Britain have found that practitioners of meditation appear to be more susceptible to subliminal messages than are those who dont practice the ancient art. Advertisers use hidden images embedded in photographs, for example, to cause reactions that we are generally unaware of, until were walking the aisles of a supermarket and suddenly find ourselves desiring a certain product. () - In our busy world most rarely have time to ponder the intricacies of subliminal messaging, despite the fact that it goes on all around us every day, in many cases as a direct means to incite us to buy an advertised product.
