14 Facts About Susan Clancy

Susan A Clancy is a cognitive psychologist and Associate professor in Consumer behaviour at INCAE as well as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Susan Clancy is best known for her controversial work on repressed and recovered memories in her books Abducted and The Trauma Myth.

In 2001, Clancy received her PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University.

Susan Clancy joined the Harvard University psychology department as a graduate student in 1995.

Susan Clancy hypothesized that there was a group of people who were more susceptible to false memory creation and that this tendency might be demonstrated in the lab by giving standard memory tests.

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Susan Clancy's work was heavily criticized by some in the community.

Susan Clancy decided at this point to find a new group to study.

Susan Clancy began studying alien abductees, whose stories could produce more methodologically clear study results.

Susan Clancy began canvassing for participants until she found 11 willing abductees.

In 2003, Susan Clancy took a position as a professor at the Harvard-affiliated Central American Business Administration Institute in Managua, Nicaragua.

Susan Clancy went on to become the research director at the Harvard-affiliated Center for Women's Advancement, Development and Leadership in Nicaragua.

Susan Clancy finds that previous interest in the paranormal and emotional investment play a role in creating abduction memories.

Benedict Carey's only critique is that Susan Clancy did not ask the abductees that she interviewed to share their religious beliefs, which he notes that Susan Clancy herself regretted as well.

Susan Clancy finds that it can be very beneficial for these survivors to learn that their experience and their reaction, or lack of reaction, was normal.