thousands of mentally healthy people believe they were abducted by aliens and are able to report, with all the appropriate feeling, internally consistent stories of the bizarre experiments they believe they endured. As research psychologist John Kihlstrom observed, “The weakness of the relationship between accuracy and confidence is one of the best-documented phenomena in the 100-year history of eyewitness memory research,”14 but van der Kolk was unaware of a finding that just about every undergraduate who has taken Psychology 101 would know.
