What "Alien Abductions" Say About Our Brains

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You’re on the internet, so you probably know that people sometimes claim to have been abducted by aliens. When researchers start to look closely at these stories and where they come from, they begin to realize that there might be something really interesting happening here psychologically.

#Psychology #Brain #Memory #Psych #Science

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Sources:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13546800244000058
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10487786
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381009990404X
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363461505050715
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11233172_Memory_distortion_in_people_reporting_abduction_by_aliens

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