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Communist Coercive Methods for Eliciting Individual Compliance.
Isolation
-Deprives individual of social support of his ability to resist.
-Makes individual dependent upon the captor.
-Individual develops an intense concern with self.
Monopolization of Perception
-Fixed all attention upon immediate predicament;
-Frustrates all actions not consistent with complinence.
-Eliminates stimuli competing with those controlled by the captor.
Induced Debility and Exhaustion
-Weakens mental and physical ability to resist
-People become worn out by tension and fear.
Threats
-Cultivates anxiety and despair
-Gives demands and consequences for non compliance
Occasional Indulgences
-Provides motivation for compliance
-Hinders adjustment to deprivation
-Creates hope for change, reduces resistance
-Keeps people unsure of what is happening
Demonstrate Omnipotence
-Demonstrates futility of resistance
-Shows who is in charge
-Provides positive motivation for compliance
Degradation
-Makes resistance seem worse than compliance
-Creates feelings of helplessness
-Creates fear of Freedom, Dependance upon captors.
Enforcing Trivial Demands
-Develops habit of compliance
-Demands made are illogical and contradictory
-Rules on compliance may change
-Reinforces who is in control
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