Memory Distortion in People Reporting Abductions by Aliens

(Clancy, McNally, Schacter, & Lenzenweger, 2002)

The concept of abductions by aliens is a traumatic event that is unlikely to have occurred. In spite of this fact, individuals over the years and all across the world have experienced this phenomenon. Taken into consideration the likelihood of this scenario taken place, the search for more reasonable down to earth explanations have been sought. False memory creations have be studied and examined as a possible catalyst or cause of these abduction reports. The false memory creations have been determined to be real time events in a person’s life that occur because of Traumatic events, real or fantasy. The memories of these events are forgotten, lost in a person’s subconscious mind, until, supposedly, revealed through hypnotic regression preformed by a hypnotherapist. A Variation of the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm (J. Deese, 1959; H.L. Roediger III & K.B. McDermott, 1995) was used to examine these false memori

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