Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation

Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O'Mara's account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deepl...

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Main Author: O'Mara, Shane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2015]
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O'Mara's account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten)
ISBN:9780674915510
DOI:10.4159/9780674915510

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