Im not reading all 19 pages, but get the gist.
Some might find John Bargh’s et al research interesting. I dabbled in some of this type of research in my previous career. There might not be conscious awareness, but people arent impervious to priming from their environment.
His findings include:
– giving someone a hot drink to hold, vs a cold one, results in the subject giving more positive, ‘warmer’ ratings to an ambiguous person described
– after completing a word search to find word relating to old age, vs neutral words, subjects were slower to walk down the corridor when leaving the lab
– after completing a word scramble game priming for ‘achievement’, participants performed better than controls on an intelligence test