Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · chapter 3 · id influence-c3-04-chinese-captors-during-the-kor

“Chinese captors during the Korean War used incremental commitment techniques -- starting with small anti-American statements ('America is not perfect') and escalating to full propaganda essays -- to produce genuine attitude change in American POWs.”

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Dunbar (2020), Public Psychology and the Cold War Brainwashing Scare, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciencessource alive

Chinese interrogators achieved attitude change primarily through peer pressure and small behavioral concessions, not through torture.

CIA (1956), Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination, and Exploitation of Prisoners of WarFLAGGED: dead link (302)

Exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea.

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