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[Previous entry: "Best science photos of 2005"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "The mp3 player toothbrush."] 10/26/2005 Entry: "aliens in your head" The aliens in your head. Or Close Encounters of the I-Want-to-Believe Kind. But research by Professor Chris French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths College in London has suggested that this type of contact with alien life may be all in the mind. Prof French carried out the study by comparing 19 alleged "abductees" and 19 random volunteers. He found that in psychological tests, so-called "experiencers" scored more highly in a number of areas, including belief in the paranormal, a tendency to hallucinate, and "dissociative" tendencies which can lead to altered states of consciousness.