SOCIOL 3GG3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Alien Abduction, Sleep Paralysis, Falsifiability
8 Mar 2019
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Some inds didn"t have memories of being abducted, but thought they were after they experienced something weird or due to personality traits. How do inds think they were abducted clancy: abduction beliefs reflect attempts to explain off, unusual, and perplexing experiences. Frightening i wonder why stage beginnings after a sleeping experience wake up sudden and scared. Things happen to us all the time and we don"t think anything of it but abductees do. Search for meaning is a catalyst: what makes abductees unusual is which explanation they chose to use, when youre looking for the cause of something you"re limited to a set of explanations you"ve actually heard of. Reports by others esp attractive and respected inds count as evidence by other abductees. There are lots of planets in the earth". Yeah but they have to have proper living conditions.
