Xenology

The only universal message of science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently.

- Niven's Fifteenth Law

The scientific study of alien intelligence and its characteristics: biology, intelligence, culture, civilization. Scientists in the field are known as xenologists.

Subfields

Civilization Theory
Comparative Technology
First Contact Studies
Interspecies Dynamics
Sociobiology
Xenoarchaeogy
Xenobiology
Xenolinguistics
Xenotheology
...and others