Man in Isolation and Confinement

by Rasmussen,John E.

• ISBN13: 9780202361451
• ISBN10: 0202361454
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 that have allowed men to enter into isolation situations previously unattainable-in outer space, under the sea, on the face of the moon, or in remote places on the earth's surface. For the scientist himself, applications of the knowledge derived from these special situations is obvious. The variety of ways in which the search may be carried on, in both the laboratory and "real-life" situations, is amply illustrated in the approaches as well as the settings for research that are reviewed in this volume.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Prolonged Sensory and Perceptual Deprivation: A Review	p. 9
Temporal Isolation, Activity Rhythms, and Time Estimation	p. 85
Some Effects of Geographic and Social Isolation in Natural Settings	p. 99
Individual Behavior in Confined or Isolated Groups	p. 145
The Indirect Observation of Groups Under Confinement and/or Isolation	p. 167
Naturalistic Observations of Isolated Experimental Groups in Field Settings	p. 195
The Miniworld of Isolation: Laboratory Studies	p. 219
An Ecological Approach to the Functioning of Socially Isolated Groups	p. 241
Concepts and Strategies of Research on Groups in Isolation: Comments on Altman's Approach	p. 271
The Taxonomy of Man in Enclosed Space	p. 281
Isolation Research: The Methodological Context	p. 305
Index	p. 319
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