xenopsychology n.
the psychology of alien races
Aliens
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1972
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James E. Gunn
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She was on her way to begin graduate study in xenopsychology at a university in New York.
Listeners 209 -
1980
Greg Bear
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She was brushing up on planetary geology, exobiology, xenopsychology, and a touch of warper science.
Beyond Heaven’s River 160 -
1984
Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
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Xenopsychology.
in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Apr. 41 (title) -
1991
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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I’m not licensed to practice xenopsychology.
Dancers Like Children in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept. 122 -
2008
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Michael Swanwick
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I filed it under Architecture, subheading: Support Systems with links to Esthetics and Xenopsychology.
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled… in Asimov’s Science Fiction Feb. 13 -
2012
Don Sakers
Surely the most interesting examples of xenopsychology, though, come from an entirely different approach. Here, the author begins with specifics of alien biology and environment, and works from there to develop and deduce psychology.
Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Nov. 105/1
Research requirements
antedating 1972
Earliest cite
James E. Gunn, "The Listeners"
Research History
Suggested by Mike Christie.
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