This suggests that if microbial life is found on Mars, Saturns icy moon Enceladus (SN: 5/13/17, p. 6) or elsewhere in the solar system, well take the news rather well, said Michael Varnum, a social psychologist at Arizona State University in Tempe. Whats more, the tone of news reports announcin
Date: Feb 17, 2018
Category: Science
Source: Google
Is Humanity Ready for the Discovery of Alien Life?
I think were generally sort of positively predisposed to novelty, unless we have strong reason to suspect it could harm us, says Michael Varnum, a psychologist at A.S.U. Tempe and the studys senior author. Of course, Im not saying that if we got news that there were a bunch of large alien wars
Date: Feb 16, 2018
Category: Science
Source: Google
How will humanity react to alien life? Psychologists have some predictions.
Michael Varnum, a psychologistat Arizona State University and a member of its newInterplanetary Initiative, is trying to anticipate thisresponse. One of the initial questions [of the initiative] that we're curious about is how might we respond if we discover evidence of extraterrestrial life, h
established U.S. states (or frontier states), such as Washington and Oregon, are taking the lead with more adventurous less common baby names. That's according to research by Michael Varnum and Shinobu Kitayama of the University of Michigan, published in 2010 in the journal Psychological Science.