Compliance and conversion in a Situation of Sensory Deprivation

Moscovici, Serge; Doms, Machteld

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“…In short, the minority induces a social conflict which is engendered by its consistency (a conflict which is not resolved by the subject's adoption of compliance behaviour), and which induces a validation process 'by considering that deviant responses may contain some truth, and confronting the response with the corresponding object' (ibid., p. 272). This perceptual activity concerning the object would then be the source of the indirect influence or conversion (Moscovici, 1980) observed by several investigators (without trying to be exhaustive: Moscovici et al 1969, in the first instance and then Doms, 1978;Doms and Van Avermaet, 1980;Lage, 1973;Maass and Clarke, 1983;Moscovici and Doms, 1982;Moscovici and Lage, 1976;Moscovici, Mugny and Papastamou, 198 1 ;Moscovici and Personnaz, 1980;Mugny, 1975Mugny, , 1976Mugny, , 1982Mugny, Kaiser and Papastamou, 1983;Mugny and Papastamou, 1975-76;Mugny, Pierrehumbert and Zubel, 1972-73;Personnaz, 1979Personnaz, , 1981Riba and Mugny, 1981;Wolf, 1979).…”

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Compliance, conversion and the Asch paradigm

Mugny

1984

Euro J Social Psych

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Compliance, conversion and the Asch paradigm

Mugny

1984

Euro J Social Psych

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“…The symptoms associated with sensory deprivation and perceptual deprivation have been well-documented and replicated across various studies [ 38 , 39 ]. One of the most important results of sensory deprivation experiments is that the resultant psychologic disturbances are virtually universal and comprise a degree of cognitive impairment, auditory and visual hallucinations, increased susceptibility to suggestion, instability of belief and attitude change, increased compliance, anxiety and depression, apathy, lethargy, reduced stimulation-seeking behaviour, disorganised planning and eventually depersonalisation which causes some people to lose touch progressively with reality [ 40 , 41 ].…”

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Psychological factors in exceptional, extreme and torturous environments

Leach

2016

Extrem Physiol Med

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Our cognitive system has adapted to support goal-directed behaviour within a normal environment. An abnormal environment is one to which we are not optimally adapted but can accommodate through the development of coping strategies. These abnormal environments can be ‘exceptional’, e.g., polar base, space station, submarine, prison, intensive care unit, isolation ward etc.; ‘extreme’, marked by more intense environmental stimuli and a real or perceived lack of control over the situation, e.g., surviving at sea in a life-raft, harsh prison camp etc.; or ‘tortuous’, when specific environmental stimuli are used deliberately against a person in an attempt to undermine his will or resistance. The main factors in an abnormal environment are: psychological (isolation, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, temporal disorientation); psychophysiological (thermal, stress positions), and psychosocial (cultural humiliation, sexual degradation). Each single factor may not be considered tortuous, however, if deliberately structured into a systemic cluster may constitute torture under legal definition. The individual experience of extremis can be pathogenic or salutogenic and attempts are being made to capitalise on these positive experiences whilst ameliorating the more negative aspects of living in an abnormal environment.

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“…• Impairment in higher mental functions and complex intellectual tasks (Myers, Murphy, Smith, and Goffard, 1966;Kitamura, 1967) • Increased susceptibility to infl uence (under some conditions) (Myers et al, 1966) • Heightened hypnotic susceptibility (Sanders and Reyher, 1969) • Diminished EEG activity correlated with apathetic, lethargic behavior, and a reduction in stimulation seeking behavior (Scott and Gendreau, 1969) • Behaving in a way that is more boring and unlikable (Zuckerman et al, 1970) • Increased anxiety and depression (Zuckerman et al, 1970) • Greater instability of beliefs and of both peripheral and central attitudes (Tetlock and Seudfeld, 1976;Seudfeld and Borrie, 1978) • Cognitive disorganization (Seudfeld and Borrie, 1978) • Increased persuadability (Seudfeld and Borrie, 1978) • Increased compliance behavior (beyond usual social infl uence conditions) (Moscovici and Doms, 1982) …”

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“…• Increased anxiety and depression (Zuckerman et al, 1970) • Greater instability of beliefs and of both peripheral and central attitudes (Tetlock and Seudfeld, 1976; Seudfeld and Borrie, 1978) • Cognitive disorganization (Seudfeld and Borrie, 1978) • Increased persuadability (Seudfeld and Borrie, 1978) • Increased compliance behavior (beyond usual social infl uence conditions) (Moscovici and Doms, 1982) …”

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2006

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Compliance and conversion in a Situation of Sensory Deprivation

Cited by 9 publications

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Compliance, conversion and the Asch paradigm

Compliance, conversion and the Asch paradigm

Psychological factors in exceptional, extreme and torturous environments

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