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Autore |
Clancy Susan A |
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Titolo |
Abducted : how people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens / / Susan A. Clancy |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alien abduction |
Human-alien encounters |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-171) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. How Do You Wind Up Studying Aliens? -- 2. How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted By Aliens? -- 3. Why Do I Have Memories If It Didn't Happen? -- 4. Why Are Abduction Stories So Consistent? -- 5. Who Gets Abducted? -- 6. If It Didn't Happen, Why Would I Want To Believe It Did? -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Clancy argues that abductees are sane, intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mélange of nightmares, culturally available texts, and a drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief. |
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