Goldsmiths study of the psychology of alien contact experiencers

When: Nov 2008
Where: London, England
Sources: 2 public sources

Goldsmiths, University of London, where the study was carried out Alex Blandford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Chris French's team at Goldsmiths compared 19 UK alien contact experiencers with matched controls. Experiencers scored higher on dissociation, absorption, fantasy proneness, tendency to hallucinate and reported sleep paralysis, but showed no difference in false-memory susceptibility.

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OtherPsychological aspects of the alien contact experience (Cortex 44(10):1387-1395) (opens in a new tab)PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) / 2008-11
OtherPsychological aspects of the alien contact experience (journal page) (opens in a new tab)Cortex (Elsevier) / 2008-11

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