Preparing for Extraterrestrial Contact: Prototypes, Worldviews, and Psychological Readiness
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To prepare for possible extraterrestrial contact, study both experiences of contact and how people think about them by drawing on crisis myths, culture clashes, slow diffusion of ideas, and SETI-style discoveries, while recognizing that biases and worldviews shape interpretation and that early signals will be sparse and people will seek validation from like-minded others.
