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ETI: Our first impressions by Albert A Harrison; Joel T Johnson is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
What is ETI: Our first impressions about?
AbstractÐDespite scant or ambiguous information, people are capable of developing comprehensive and detailed impressions. Consequently, if the detection of an electromagnetically-active civilization is announced, many people will rapidly form impressions of what the extraterrestrials and their civilization are ``like''. First impressions are crucial, not only because of their immediate psychological, social, and political consequences on Earth, but because they can in ̄uence the future of interstellar communication. Initial impressions will rest less on hard data than on the nature and tone of the ``evidence'' that is gleaned from the transmission; the interpretation and dissemination of this evidence; and the hard wiring, psychological programming, cultural conditioning, and social in ̄uence processes that shape human perception. We consider how dispositional inferences, implicit theories of personality, negatively toned or adverse information, physical appearance, prior expectations, the con®rmation bias, and thinking and unthinking approaches to attitude formation are likely to aect human impressions of ETI.
Who reads ETI: Our first impressions?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Engineering.
- Author
- Albert A Harrison; Joel T Johnson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0094-5765)
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)