A group of people who refer to themselves as 'Starseeds,' believe that they are aliens from different stars and planets, reincarnated inside human bodies.
Ken Drinkwater and Neil Dagnall, from the
Manchester Metropolitan University, and Andrew Denovan, a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield —about the phenomenon, there's a helpful theory that might explain why so many people believe this stuff. They claim it's because of the Forer Effect, a common psychological phenomenon based on psychologist Bertram Forer's 1949 paper called the "Fallacy of Personal Validation," which posits that it's incredibly easy to get people to identify deeply with vague personality descriptions that can apply to just about anyone — especially when those common traits are framed to validate the individual desire to be seen as unique.
Look, yes, people are different. But even before you reach that point, the reasons that people are drawn to the idea of being a Starseed in the first place — which according toincludes feeling a lack of belonging, literally just having empathy, and experiencing mental health issues — really just seem like the side effects of being human.
That said, a disclaimer: as noted in the experts' essay, there are probably some outfits who believe themselves to be aliens in a much more real way, particularly those who might be affected by schizophrenia or similar disorders.. But hey, we all cope with the burdens of humanity in our own ways.[The Conversation]
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