How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?

Front Psychol · 2017 · PMC5767786 · PMID 29367849

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A two-way mixed-design ANOVA revealed a marginally significant interaction between the type of article (Martian life vs. synthetic life) and affect (positive vs. negative), F (1,503) = 3.73, p = 0.05, η p 2 = 0.007, such that reactions of those in the Martian life condition showed a stronger positivity bias than reactions of those in the synthetic life condition.

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