Tag: Richard J. McNally

  • Nation & World

    Not unusual to forget childhood sexual abuse

    When questioned closely by psychologists from Harvard University about their feelings, victims of childhood sexual abuse revealed some surprising impressions.

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  • Nation & World

    Alien abduction claims explained

    Abduction stories are strikingly similar. Victims wake up and find themselves paralyzed, unable to move or cry out for help.

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  • Nation & World

    Starship memories

    Psychologists are at odds over the idea that people can forget traumatic events then “recover” intact memories of the trauma years later. On one side are clinicians, who observe that painful memories can be repressed, banished from a trauma survivor’s consciousness until they’re “recovered” with the help of certain psychotherapeutic techniques in adulthood. Memory researchers,…

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  • Nation & World

    Alien abduction claims examined

    Richard McNally, a Harvard professor of psychology, and his colleagues recruited six women and four men who claimed they had been spirited away by extraterrestrials, some of them more than once.

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