Template:Did you know nominations/Anthony Pratkanis


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by  —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  13:57, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Anthony Pratkanis

 * * ... that professor Anthony Pratkanis (pictured) is an expert in subliminal communication? Source:It was my opinion that there was no scientific support for the proposition that subliminal directives could induce behaviors of any kind, let alone suicide. Pratkanis reiterated some of the main points of my testimony regarding the history of research on subliminal influence, and described a recently conducted experiment (since published) showing that subliminal self-help tapes were ineffective
 * ALT1:* ... that professor Anthony Pratkanis (pictured) is an experimental psychologist whose research has been translated into 10 languages? Pratkanis’ research has investigated such topics as the delayed effects of persuasion, attitudes and memory, groupthink, affirmative action, subliminal persuasion, mass communications, source credibility and persuasion and democracy. His research has been translated into 10 languages.
 * Comment: First hook relates to the trial of Vance/Belknap -v- Judas Priest where Judas Priest were accused of leaving subliminal messages in their music that caused 2 teenaged boys to commit suicide.
 * Comment: First hook relates to the trial of Vance/Belknap -v- Judas Priest where Judas Priest were accused of leaving subliminal messages in their music that caused 2 teenaged boys to commit suicide.

5x expanded by User:Boneso (talk). Nominated by Boneso (talk) at 23:34, 22 May 2017 (UTC). Error in nomination corrected from Timothy E Moore to Boneso 8&#61;&#61;8 Boneso (talk) 22:38, 26 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg not new enough. It had 2453 prose characters as of this revision. Expanded version has 5574. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:11, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice TonyBallioni I was unaware that the expansion was not long enough.  I guess the nomination does not comply.  How do I withdraw? 8&#61;&#61;8 Boneso (talk) 23:18, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Now that I've marked it as not meeting the criteria and you've responded to it, someone will come along and close the nomination. You don't have to do anything else. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:21, 27 May 2017 (UTC)