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According to Wikipedia, Douglas A. Vakoch is an American astrobiologist, search for extraterrestrial intelligence researcher, psychologist, and president of METI International, a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations. Vakoch led METI's participation in Sónar Calling GJ 273b, which transmitted a series of interstellar messages to Luyten's Star, located 12.4 light years from Earth. Vakoch advocates ongoing transmission projects, arguing that this does not increase risks of an alien invasion as suggested by British cosmologist Stephen Hawking. He has participated in several SETI observation programs, and after sixteen years at the SETI Institute, where he was director of Interstellar Message Composition, Vakoch founded METI International. He has edited over a dozen books in SETI, astrobiology, the psychology of space exploration, and ecocriticism. He is general editor of two-book series in ecocriticism and in the intersection of space and society. Vakoch has appeared widely on television and radio as a commentator on SETI and astrobiology. He is an emeritus professor of clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies .

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Tone perception in Cantonese and Mandarin: A cross-linguistic comparison (1996) (188)
Speech perception and vocal expression of emotion (2001) (63)
Escape from Babel: Toward a Unifying Language for Psychotherapy Practice. (1998) (48)
Dimensions of Speech Perception: Semantic Associations in the Affective Lexicon (1996) (40)
OPTICAL SETI OBSERVATIONS OF THE ANOMALOUS STAR KIC 8462852 (2015) (38)
SETI turns 50: five decades of progress in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (2010) (37)
Transfer and retention of implicit and explicit learning. (1996) (37)
The drake equation : estimating the prevalence of extraterrestrial life through the ages (2015) (36)
The evolution of psychotheroapy training: reflections on manual-based learning and future alternatives. (2000) (35)
RADIO SETI OBSERVATIONS OF THE ANOMALOUS STAR KIC 8462852 (2015) (33)
CONSTRUCTING MESSAGES TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS : AN EXOSEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE (1998) (32)
Emotional Connotation in Speech Perception: Semantic Associations in the General Lexicon (1997) (29)
Reactions to receipt of a message from extraterrestrial intelligence: a cross-cultural empirical study☆ (2000) (28)
Recognition of Spoken Words: Semantic Effects in Lexical Access (2004) (28)
The Adaptive Value of Lexical Connotation in Speech Perception (2000) (27)
Astrobiology, History, and Society: Life Beyond Earth and the Impact of Discovery (2013) (25)
Signs of Life beyond Earth: A Semiotic Analysis of Interstellar Messages (2017) (24)
The dialogic model: representing human diversity in messages to extraterrestrials 1 1 Paper IAA-95-IAA.9.2.10 presented at the SETI: Interdisciplinary Aspects Review Meeting, 46th International Astronautical Congress in Oslo, Norway, October 6, 1995. (1998) (21)
Semantic effects in lexical access: Evidence from single-word naming (2003) (21)
Responsibility, capability, and Active SETI: Policy, law, ethics, and communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (2011) (20)
Asymmetry in Active SETI: A case for transmissions from Earth (2011) (19)
Asymmetry in Active SETI: A case for transmissions from Earth (2011) (19)
Extraterrestrial altruism : evolution and ethics in the cosmos (2014) (18)
Ecopsychology, phenomenology, and the environment: The experience of nature. (2014) (18)
Altruism in cross-cultural perspective (2013) (16)
In defence of METI (2016) (16)
Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapies: A Comparison of Change Processes (1996) (14)
Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective (2011) (14)
The conventionality of pictorial representation in interstellar messages (2000) (11)
The Application of Autocorrelation SETI Search Techniques in an ATA Survey (2015) (10)
The Role of the Social Sciences in SETI (2005) (10)
Representing culture in interstellar messages (2005) (9)
Constructing messages to extraterrestrials: an exosemiotic perspective 1 1 Paper IAA-95-IAA.9.2.05 presented at the SETI: Interdisciplinary Aspects Review Meeting, 46th International Astronautical Congress in Oslo, Norway, October 6, 1995. (1998) (9)
An iconic approach to communicating musical concepts in interstellar messages (2010) (9)
Feminist ecocriticism : environment, women, and literature (2012) (8)
Three-Dimensional Messages for Interstellar Communication (2000) (8)
Women and Nature? : Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment (2017) (7)
What does it mean to be human?: Reflections on the portrayal of pain in interstellar messages (2011) (7)
The Art and Science of Interstellar Message Composition (2004) (6)
Hawking’s fear of an alien invasion may explain the Fermi Paradox (2017) (6)
An algorithmic approach to communicating reciprocal altruism in interstellar messages: Drawing analogies between social and astrophysical phenomena (2011) (6)
Managing Sex Offenders in the Community With the Assistance of Polygraph Testing 75 (1998) (6)
A narratological approach to interpreting and designing interstellar messages (2011) (5)
The dimensional structure of the lexicon (1994) (5)
What should we say to extraterrestrial intelligence?: An analysis of responses to “Earth Speaks” (2013) (5)
Roman Catholic Views of Extraterrestrial Intelligence : Anticipating the Future by Examining the Past (2005) (5)
The Drake Equation (2015) (5)
Anthropological Contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2009) (5)
The art and science of interstellar message composition: a report on international workshops to encourage multidisciplinary discussion (2003) (4)
A taxonomic approach to communicating maxims in interstellar messages (2011) (4)
Iconic approach to communicating chemical concepts to extraterrestrials (1996) (4)
COVID-19 in International Media (2021) (3)
Transecology : Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature (2020) (3)
Life Beyond Earth and the Evolutionary Synthesis (2013) (3)
Earth Speaks: Identifying Common Themes in Interstellar Messages Proposed from Around the World (2010) (2)
Large-Size Message Construction for ETI: Self-Interpretation in LINCOS (2004) (2)
Typing logic contents using Lingua Cosmica (2011) (2)
To the Stars, Silently (2004) (2)
Integrating Active and Passive SETI Programs: Prerequisites for Multigenerational Research (2010) (2)
What’s Past is Prologue: Future Messages of Cosmic Evolution (2011) (1)
Honest exchanges with ET (2009) (1)
Communicating Concepts about Altruism in Interstellar Messages (2002) (1)
Metalaw as a Foundation for Active SETI (2007) (1)
A Radio SETI Campaign for microsec-sec Periodic Signals (2017) (1)
Can we speak alien? (2018) (1)
Large-size message construction for ETI, Logical existence expressed in Lingua Cosmica ☆ (2013) (1)
Literature and Ecofeminism : Intersectional and International Voices (2018) (1)
The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature (2022) (1)
On Orbit and Beyond (2013) (1)
Fraction of stars with planetary systems, fp, pre-1961 (2015) (1)
Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond (2021) (1)
Bright blue dot (2004) (1)
Beings on Earth: Is That All There Is? (2012) (1)
Eco-Anxiety and Pandemic Distress (2022) (1)
Perceived similarity of vocal expression of emotion (1994) (0)
| Women and Nature? | Taylor & Francis Group (2017) (0)
Lexical access is influenced by vocal expression of emotion (1994) (0)
Telling it like it could be. (1997) (0)
How to decode interstellar messages (2021) (0)
Active SETI: The Next Step for Humanity (2015) (0)
Number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life, ne, 1961 to the present (2015) (0)
Vocal correlates of interpersonal issues (1994) (0)
Pursuing Five Strategies for Achieving Contact Spreading the Word the (2005) (0)
Spspll. Some Control Experiments on a Model for Prominence (2007) (0)
What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research. (1998) (0)
Many‐valued logic is reflected in formant location and spectral composition (1994) (0)
Flying with strangers:Post-mission reflections of international space crews (2009) (0)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Dysthymis Disorder (1999) (0)
Communicating with the other: Infinity, geometry, and universal math and science (2015) (0)
Lie detection based on phonatory processes (1994) (0)
Ecofeminist Science Fiction (2021) (0)
The adaptive value of connotation in speech perception (1997) (0)
Combining the best of two possible worlds. (1991) (0)
Some control experiments on a model for prominence intonation (2007) (0)
Getting Your Bearings: A Compass for Managed Care. (1997) (0)
Review of Narrative solutions in brief therapy. (1997) (0)
Neuroticism and openness are predicted by fundamental frequency of speech (1994) (0)
What the World Needs Now: Identifying the Relative Degree of Specific Maslovian Needs and Degree of Species-Level Self-Identification in Interstellar Messages Submitted by a Multinational Sample (2010) (0)
Expanding Human Presence Beyond the Solar System Through Active SETI: On the Prerequisites for Legal Relations with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2005) (0)
Control experiments on the frequency scale of speech intonation (2007) (0)

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