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{{Infobox writer<br />
| name = Wilson Bryan Key<br />
| subject = [[Media theory]], [[propaganda]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Denver]]<br />
| birth_date = January 31, 1925<br />
| death_date = October 8, 2008<br />
}}<br />
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'''Wilson Bryan Key''' (January 31, 1925 – October 8, 2008) was an American writer. He was the author of several books about [[subliminal stimuli|subliminal]] messages and subliminal advertising.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Key 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]].<br />
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A US court case in 1990 accused the English Heavy Metal Band [[Judas Priest]] of causing suicide through subliminal messaging. Key advised the plaintiffs lawyer to hire Bill Nickloff, an audio engineer, to find the subliminal messaging.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solotaroff |first1=Ivan |title=The Stacks: The Judas Priest Teen Suicide Trial |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-stacks-the-judas-priest-teen-suicide-trial |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=June 28, 2014 |access-date=14 November 2018}}</ref> The judge found that the defendant was not responsible for the deaths.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grow |first1=Korey |title=Judas Priest's Subliminal Message Trial: Rob Halford Looks Back |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/judas-priests-subliminal-message-trial-rob-halford-looks-back-57552/ |website=RollingStone.com .|date=August 24, 2015 |access-date=14 November 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Key died following complications resulting from surgery. He is interred at the [[Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Fernley, Nevada]].{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}<br />
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==Criticism==<br />
His results and conclusions have been challenged, in books including the following:<br />
* {{cite book |last= Boese |first= Alex |year= 2006 |title= Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. |publisher= [[Harcourt, Inc.]] |isbn= 0156030837 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/hippoeatsdwarffi00boes }}<br />
* {{cite journal |last= Moore |first= Timothy E. |date=Spring 1992 |title= Subliminal Perception: Facts and Fallacies |journal= Skeptical Inquirer |volume= 16 |issue= 3 |pages= 273–281 }} Reprinted in ''Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief'', edited by [[Kendrick Frazier]], [[Prometheus Books]], 1998, 253–263. {{ISBN|157392203X}}<br />
* {{cite journal |last= Pratkanis |first= Anthony R. |date=Spring 1992 |title= Myths of Subliminal Persuasion: The Cargo-cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion |journal= Skeptical Inquirer |volume= 16 |issue= 3 |pages= 260–272 }} Reprinted in ''Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief'', edited by [[Kendrick Frazier]], [[Prometheus Books]], 1998, 240–252. {{ISBN|157392203X}}<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
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* ''Subliminal Seduction: Are You Being Sexually Aroused By This Picture?'' a.k.a. ''Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America'' (1974). Introduction by [[Marshall McLuhan]]. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: {{LCCN|73-5421}}.<br />
* ''Media Sexploitation'' (1976). Prentice-Hall, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0135730065}}<br />
* ''The Clam-Plate Orgy: And Other Subliminal Techniques for Manipulating Your Behavior'' (1980). Signet.<br />
** reissued as ''Subliminal Ad-Ventures in Erotic Art'' (1992). Branden Books. {{ISBN|0828319510}}<br />
* ''The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere'' (1989). H. Holt. {{ISBN|978-0819186539}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Programming the Nation?]]''<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* ''The Secret Sales Pitch: An Overview of Subliminal Advertising'' (2004), by August Bullock. Norwich Publishers. {{ISBN|0974264008}}.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/556/are-subliminal-messages-secretly-embedded-in-advertisements ''The Straight Dope'': "Are subliminal messages secretly embedded in advertisements?" (1987)]<br />
* [http://www.well.com/user/angus/compare.html Wilson Bryan Key's words? Or Joan Peyser's?]<br />
* [https://dominicstreatfeild.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/interview-with-wilson-bryan-key/ Interview with Wilson Bryan Key]. Source Material for ''Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control'' (by phone, March 27, 2005)<br />
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