SciShow Psych: What "Alien Abductions" Say About Our Brains

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Go to https://curiositystream.com/series/315/ancient-earth-season-1 to start streaming Ancient Earth! Use the promo code ‘psych’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free! 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. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- 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 https://www.simplypsychology.org/loftus-palmer.html https://michaelshermer.com/2008/12/patternicity/ https://www.history.com/news/first-alien-abduction-account-barney-betty-hill


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