342 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
339 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on those special circumstances in which men (alone or in groups) are isolated or confined for periods of time long enough to affect the way in which they think and behave. Active research in these phenomena initially grew out of a concern about prisoners of war in Korea and the presumed effects of "brainwashing," but this interest has been augmented by the technological advances... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Prolonged Sensory and Perceptual Deprivation: A Review; 3: Temporal Isolation, Activity Rhythms, and Time Estimation; 4: Some Effects of Geographic and Social Isolation in Natural Settings; 5: Individual Behavior in Confined or Isolated Groups; 6: The Indirect Observation of Groups Under Confinement and Isolation; 7: Naturalistic Observations of Isolated Experimental Groups in Field Settings; 8: The Miniworld of Isolation: Laboratory Studies; 9: An Ecological Approach to the Functioning of Socially Isolated Groups; 10: Concepts and Strategies of Research on Groups in Isolation: Comments on Altman’s Approach; 11: The Taxonomy of Man in Enclosed Space; 12: Isolation Research: The Methodological Context
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John E. Rasmussen
