A Harvard University study found that the more someone is tortured, the more other people perceive that person as guilty.
This sounds like the flip side of the Ingram Experiment.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026152818.htm
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drachefly | 28-Oct-09 at 11:47 am | Permalink
Toward the end of the article it says the jury is out on whether torture actually is more likely to produce the truth…
sigh.
Greg | 28-Oct-09 at 7:41 pm | Permalink
I don’t think they were saying torture makes people tell the truth, just that they didn’t monitor that in this study. Maybe it’s more a matter of the reporter using a bad choice of language versus the people conducting the study. Not sure.
drachefly | 30-Oct-09 at 7:25 am | Permalink
Oh, they certainly weren’t saying that torture elicits the truth, but I thought there was pretty strong evidence for the opposite. Obviously not from controlled studies, due to the ethical catastrophe it would necessarily entail.