#MilitaryPsychology
7 entries tagged MilitaryPsychology.
People (1)
- Philip Zimbardo Stanford psychologist who conducted the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrating that normal volunteers rapidly adopted abusive or submissive behavior when assigned to guard and prisoner roles, producing findings with implications for interrogation and captivity research.
Organizations (5)
- APRE The British Army's primary human factors research unit, established as an independent organization in 1965 at Farnborough by merging two predecessor establishments, that focused on selection, training, ergonomics, and environmental physiology while maintaining a secondary role advising the Special Air Service on interrogation-relevant subjects.
- Human Resources Research Institute A US Air Force-affiliated behavioral science research organization at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, that conducted classified psychological vulnerability studies of Communist China beginning in 1951, producing analyses of Chinese newspaper letter columns and family revolution dynamics intended to support propaganda targeting.
- HumRRO A nonprofit research organization founded in 1951 that served as the US Army's primary contractor for behavioral science research, conducting classified studies on training, leadership, counterinsurgency, and psychological vulnerability before separating from George Washington University in 1969.
- ORO-RAC A pair of successive Army-linked research organizations at Johns Hopkins University and then McLean, Virginia, that conducted early Cold War studies on fighter selection, unit cohesion, and guerrilla psychology before the university severed the relationship and the work continued under an independent nonprofit.
- USARIBSS The US Army's primary in-house behavioral and social science research organization, which operated under a series of names from its origins as the US Army Personnel Research Office through its consolidation as the Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences in 1974.
Programs (1)
- SERE A US military training program developed after the Korean War to prepare service members to resist coercive interrogation through simulated captivity, which became the template for 'enhanced interrogation' techniques after its methods were reverse-engineered for offensive use following September 11, 2001.