TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Psychic freezing to lethal malevolent authority
JO  - Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research
A1  - Turan, Serbulent
A1  - Dutton, Donald G.
SP  - 4
EP  - 15
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 1759-6599
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5042/jacpr.2010.0332
ID  - ref1
ER  -