Reactions to receipt of a message from extraterrestrial intelligence: a cross-cultural empirical study

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 737-744

  Vakoch, D A ^a   Lee, Y S ^b  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; SIGNAL DETECTION; STUDENTS;

BELIEF ASSESSMENT; SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0342410312     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(00)00041-2     Document Type: Article

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