Clancy (1995) found that people who believed that they were abducted by space aliens:
A)were suffering from severe psychiatric problems, such as schizophrenia.
B)were actually less likely to have false memories in the DRM paradigm than other participants.
C)came to believe that sleep-paralysis experiences were not dreams, but had really happened.
D)invariably lying to get media attention.

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Clancy (1995) found that people who believed they were abducted by aliens often had experienced episodes of sleep paralysis, which they interpreted as real experiences rather than dreams. This suggests that their belief in alien abduction may have been influenced by mistaken interpretations of ordinary physiological experiences. They did not necessarily have severe psychiatric problems or intentionally lie for media attention. There is no evidence to support option B.

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