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Index
Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Torture in Modern Times
Torture by Democracies in Modern Times Torture as an Interrogative Device in the Torture Memos Folk or Commonsense Explanations What Types of Evidence Are Admissible? What Types of Evidence Should We Consider? Kinds of Evidence: Standards for Decision Making Standards for Empirical Evidence Cargo Cult Science, Coercive Interrogation, and Torture Exploring the Counterfactuals Regarding the Efficacy of Torture
Chapter 2. How the Brain Supports Memory and Executive Functions
Stories from a Patient How Do Memories Become Consolidated in the Brain? The Frontal Lobes: Intention, Executive Function, Working Memory Brain Networks Supporting Memory The Fallibility of Memory Flashbulb Memories as an Example of the Inconsistency of Memory through Time Eyewitness Testimony How the Presence of a Group Can Distort the Memories of an Individual
Chapter 3. Can We Use Technology to Detect Deception?
Imaging the Working Brain Imaging the Exact Cognitive Contents of the Lying Brain: A Fool’s Errand Lying in the Real World Why Are We So Bad at Detecting Lies? Limitations of Brain-Imaging Technology for Lie Detection Another Approach: Using Truth Serums Propensity to Lie during Interrogation
Chapter 4. What Do Stress and Pain Do to the Brain?
Chronic, Severe Stress Impairs Psychological Functioning Stress Induced by Cramped Confinement and Shackling Neurogenesis and Apoptosis: The Birth and Death of Brain Cells Stress Dramatically Impairs Memory, Mood, and Cognition in Combat Soldiers Social Isolation and Sensory Deprivation as Forms of White Torture Social Isolation and Solitary Confinement What Changes Occur in the Brains of the Tortured? Phobic Stressors What Happens in the Human Brain during the Experience of Threat and Fear? The Effects of Chronic Stress on Cognition, Subjective Well-Being, and Mental Health
Chapter 5. What Does Sleep Deprivation Do to the Brain?
Sleep-Deprivation Methodologies Cognitive Pathologies Induced by Sleep Deprivation
Chapter 6. Drowning, Cooling, Heating, and Starving the Brain
Simulated Drowning via Waterboarding Imaging the Breathing Brain Asphyxiating and Drowning the Brain Waterboarding and Carbon Dioxide Narcosis Your Mind on Ice: Cooling the Brain and Body Dietary Manipulation of Detainees—Cognitive and Mood Effects
Chapter 7. Why Does a Torturer Torture?
Regarding Distress in Others How Does an Empathy Gap Arise? The Compassionate Brain in Action What Should a Former Torturer Do Now?
Chapter 8. Why Torture? Why Not Talk?
The Psychology of Compliance Interrogation The Interview: Context and Consequences Approaches to Interrogation
Virtual-Reality-Based Approaches Role-Playing and Narrative Scripting Third-Party Observation Big-Data Approaches Challenging Behavior and Applied Behavior Analysis
A Socio-Cognitive Framework for Interrogation Empirical Work on Interrogation Practices A Menu of Some Interrogation Possibilities The Training and Role of the Interrogator
References Further Reading
Brain, Behavior, Neuroscience, and Physiology Other Works on Torture Important Collections of Articles from a Psychological Perspective Field and Experimental Studies of Human Brain Functioning under Extremes of Stress
Acknowledgments Index
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