Keyword

alien abduction

Description: Alien abduction is a reported paranormal experience in which a person believes extraterrestrial beings have taken or encountered them against their will.

Primary topic: Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs (42%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q892757

OpenAlex ID: keywords/alien-abduction

The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark

1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 825

Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 419

Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence.

2000 · American Psychological Association eBooks · 355

Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files

2000 · Peter Knight · 229

Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America

2002 · Peter Knight · 173

Memory distortion in people reporting abduction by aliens.

2002 · Susan A. Clancy, Richard J. McNally, et al. · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 172

Psychophysiological Responding During Script-Driven Imagery in People Reporting Abduction by Space Aliens

2004 · Richard J. McNally, Natasha B. Lasko, et al. · Psychological Science · 145

Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction

2005 · Richard J. McNally, Susan A. Clancy · Transcultural Psychiatry · 124

Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories

2001 · Diane Purkiss · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 87

Abducted: how people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens

2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 85

State Dissociation, Human Behavior, and Consciousness

2011 · Mark W. Mahowald, Michel A. Cramer Bornemann, et al. · Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry · 80

Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live

2002 · Elissa R. Henken, Bill Ellis · Western Folklore · 75

The Lure of the Edge

2001 · Brenda Denzler · University of California Press eBooks · 62

UFO abductees and contactees: Psychopathology or fantasy proneness?

1991 · Robert E. Bartholomew, Keith Basterfield, et al. · Professional Psychology Research and Practice · 57

Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time

1998 · Michael Lieb · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 56

Mutants and mystics: science fiction, superhero comics, and the paranormal

2012 · Choice Reviews Online · 54

Erotic Dreams And Nightmares From Antiquity To The Present

2002 · Charles Stewart · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 53

Alien Abduction: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Management of Testimony

2007 · Peter Lipton · Episteme · 48

Alterations of consciousness: an empirical analysis for social scientists

2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 47

An Encounter With the Other: A Thematic and Content Analysis of DMT Experiences From a Naturalistic Field Study

2021 · Pascal Michael, David Luke, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 42

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience

2002 · ABC-CLIO eBooks · 42

Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review

2016 · José F. R. de Sá, Sérgio A. Mota-Rolim · Frontiers in Psychology · 39

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Crazy Therapies : What Are They? Do They Work?

1996 · Margaret Thaler Singer, Janja Lalich · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 38

Alien abduction experiences: Some clues from neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry

2002 · Katharine J. Holden, Christopher C. French · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · 36

At the bottom of the garden: a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things

2001 · Choice Reviews Online · 35

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Citation count: 4,309