The passage part two - Sleep deprivation is a common form of interrogation used by law enforcement to extract information from suspects. But how accurate is the information? This article from Smithsonian Magazine discusses the use of sleep deprivation in interrogation. As you read, take notes on how sleep deprivation affects suspects’ mental processes. "Bright" by Jennifer is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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“To dissuade1 participants who may have been tempted to press the forbidden escape key, a member of the research staff watched as participants completed the computer tasks,” the authors write in their paper.
After the second session, half of the participants slept for eight hours while the other half were forced to stay up all night. The following day, all participants were told to sign a written statement in which they were falsely accused of pressing escape during the first visit to the lab. If they refused, they were given a second opportunity to confess to this fabricated crime.
The sleep-deprived subjects were 4.5 times more likely to falsely confess — 50 percent of them caved in to the demands of the researchers, while only 18 percent of the well-rested subjects admitted to the wrongdoing, the researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[10] When those strong-willed individuals who refused to sign were prodded a second time, the sleep- deprived subjects were 3.4 times