Here are the rest of the articles: 8. Alleged Alien Abductions: False Memories, Hypnosis, and Fantasy Proneness. By: Lynn, Steven Jay; Kirsch, Irving I.. Psychological Inquiry, 1996, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p151, 5p; Abstract Comments on the article 'Toward an Explanation of...
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4th and 5th Articles from Psychological Inquiry
I'm going to take these two at a time to speed up going through this issue (and to get you the articles). My next post will be about the contents of the third and fourth articles, but I will likely skip any comments on the fifth article. Here are # 4 and # 5: 4. On...
Third Article from Psychological Inquiry
Readers recall that, back in 1996, the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Inquiry devoted an entire issue to discussing alien abduction. The second article (posted a few weeks ago), agreed with the first one by Newman and Baumeister with respect to the notion that...
Second Article in Psychological Inquiry
I'm guessing anyone who's interested in the first article has read it by now. I enjoyed some of the humorous responses. Yep, it's another one-size-fits-all explanation from the psychiatric community. They can't seem to deal with those abductees who have conscious...
Professional Psychiatry and the Abduction Phenomenon
Well, I'm finally back at blogging after some brief travel. I had meant to go into the third group that would use UFO beliefs as propaganda, but to be honest, I'm more interested now in the next trajectory. For those who are curious, I may go back to this in detail....