TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - A pilot study of naturally occurring high-probability request sequences in hostage negotiations
JO  - Journal of applied behavior analysis
A1  - Hughes, James
SP  - 491
EP  - 496
VL  - 42
IS  - 2
N2  - In the current study, the audiotapes from three hostage-taking situations were analyzed. Hostage negotiator requests to the hostage taker were characterized as either high or low probability. The results suggested that hostage-taker compliance to a hostage negotiator's low-probability request was more likely when a series of complied-with high-probability requests preceded the low-probability request. However, two of the three hostage-taking situations ended violently; therefore, the implications of the high-probability request sequence for hostage-taking situations should be assessed in future research.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-8855
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2009.42-491
ID  - ref1
ER  -