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You vs I statements, another look - mat422 - 03-17-2014

I know this has been gone over before, but I found an interesting study that I thought might be relevant.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/106/2/304/

This line in particular.

Quote: They demonstrated that non-first-person language use (compared with first-person language use) leads people to appraise future stressors in more challenging and less threatening terms

To me that sounds like it would make any perceived challenges from subliminals seem more possible. But I don't know if the same mechanism would work inside the subconscious mind or if this is a conscious phenomena.

But Shannon, I know you've already determined that most people are more resistant to the "you" statements. I just thought that this study was pretty interesting.

Actually, you know looking at this again I'm probably wrong. I have a tendency to forget that the subconscious mind reacts very differently than the conscious. I was looking at this through the filter of the conscious mind so it seemed reasonable. But then I remembered the subconscious mind doesn't really think in that manner.