Ufo Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Acknowledgments......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
List of Figures......Page 5
List of Tables......Page 6
Prologue......Page 7
1. Introduction......Page 9
2. Social and Cultural Factors Influencing Beliefs about UFOs......Page 19
3. The Zeitgeist of the UFO Phenomenon......Page 30
4. Humanoids Reported in UFOs, Religion, and Folktales: Human Bias Towards Human Life Forms?*......Page 39
5. Witnesses of UFOs and Other Anomalies......Page 53
6. Psychiatric and Parapsychiatric Dimensions of USOs......Page 65
7. Speculations on the UFO Experience......Page 76
8. UFO Reporting Dynamics......Page 82
9. Limitations of Human Verbal Behavior in the Context of UFO-Related Stimuli......Page 91
10. Reconstruction of Witnesses Experiences of Anomalous Phenomena......Page 103
11. Investigation of the Alleged UFO Experience of Carl Higdon*......Page 121
12. What do UFO Drawings by Alleged Eyewitnesses and Non-Eyewitnesses Have in Common?......Page 188
13. Possible Infrequent Geophysical Sources of Close UFO Encounters: Expected Physical and Behavioral-Biological Effects......Page 207
Contributors\' Biographies and Personal Statements......Page 226
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cu-pe......Page 232
pe-vi......Page 233
vi-ze......Page 234