Abducted : How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens

from sgerbic

At each stage of the reading I kept thinking, wow can't wait to share this part on Facebook. Then a few pages more I thought the same thing, and then the same thing and finally I just gave up remembering the best parts and just enjoyed the book. Great reference I'm sure I will revisit this book.

from Devil_llama

The author set out to investigate the alien abduction phenomenon to see how people come to believe things without, or in spite of, the evidence. Originally interested in the repressed memory phenomenon, the amount of controversy generated led her to this topic, which she felt she might be able to...

from Anome

A well written book on the psychological basis for belief in alien abduction. There is, however, one glaring error which, while it's not directly relevant to the book's thesis, is still annoying.

from

Written in the vein of Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things, although much gentler, Clancy takes a serious look at one of more extreme pseudoscientific beliefs--the idea that a person has been abducted by aliens--and tries to explore why these often very reasonable and successful peo...