%0 Journal Article
%T Psychic freezing to lethal malevolent authority
%J Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research
%D 2010
%A Turan, Serbulent
%A Dutton, Donald G.
%V 2
%N 3
%P 4-15
%X Several historical examples are given that indicate that people taken prisoner appear to psychically freeze and/or become compliant to their captors, even when death at the captors' hands is imminent and when small numbers of captors make escape a real possibility. It is argued that: freezing is a normative response to apparently inescapable capture; ‘escapability’ of capture is underestimated as a result of freezing; and rebellion is rare. Psychological theories of this psychic freezing include: 1) social psychological explanations of learned helplessness in prisoners; 2) trauma reactions of dissociation and numbing; and 3) studies from affective neuroscience suggesting freezing is a brain response to a perceived inescapable attack and may be related to hiding.<p />
%G 
%I Emerald Group Publishing
%@ 1759-6599
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.5042/jacpr.2010.0332