- How will humanity react to alien life? Psychologists have some predictions https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/04/how-will-humanity-react-to-alien-life-psychologists-have-some-predictions/?utm_term=.d09b3c463c63 4 comments space
- Humans are still searching for signs of intelligent alien life on other planets – but how would we react towards it if we ever did make contact? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221101-should-extraterrestrial-life-be-granted-sentient-rights 378 comments space
- NASA Funded Religious Experts to Predict How Humans May React to the Discovery of Alien life. https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-priests-aliens 24 comments futurology
- Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life. Across multiple studies, researchers found that reactions were significantly more positive than negative, and more reward vs. risk oriented. https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/asu-hwa020918.php 19 comments science
- Humans have passed thousands of years believing that Earth is the only place where life exists, but how could humans react if alien life is discovered? https://www.absolute-knowledge.com/humans-react-alien-life-discovered/ 13 comments aliens
- Humans would react positively to finding alien life. A new study analyzed the optimism of articles about potential discoveries of alien life, as well as data from over 1,000 survey participants. "Taken together, this suggests if we find out we're not alone, we'll take the news rather well." http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/02/a-new-study-shows-mankinds-reaction-to-alien-life-would-be-quite-positive 38 comments science