Wilson Bryan Key

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Wilson Bryan Key (1925-) is the author of several books about subliminal advertising and subliminal messages. Controversial from the start, the books were widely read, particularly at universities, where he would often lecture. He obtained his doctorate in communications from the University of Denver and taught journalism for a short period of time at the University of Western Ontario. He was a colleague and friend of Marshall McLuhan. His results and conclusions have been challenged; see, for example (Pratkanis 1992), (Moore 1992), (Boese 2006:194). It is probably for this reason that many of his books are now out of print.

His son, Wilson Bryan Key, Jr. (b. 1959) is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Boston University.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America (1973). Introduction by Marshall McLuhan. Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Media Sexploitation (1976). Prentice-Hall, Inc.

The Clam-Plate Orgy: And Other Subliminals the Media Use to Manipulate Your Behavior (1980). Signet. Reissued in 1992 as Subliminal Ad-Ventures in Erotic Art by Branden Books.

The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere (1989). H. Holt.

[edit] References

Boese, Alex (2006). Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.. Harcourt, Inc. ISBN 0-15-603083-7.

Timothy E. Moore (Spring 1992). "Subliminal Perception: Facts and Fallacies". Skeptical Inquirer 16 (3): 273–81. Reprinted in Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books, 1998, 253-63. ISBN 1-57392-203-X

Anthony R. Pratkanis (Spring 1992). "Myths of Subliminal Persuasion: The Cargo-cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion". Skeptical Inquirer 16 (3): 260–72. Reprinted in Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, edited by Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books, 1998, 240-52. ISBN 1-57392-203-X