Biderman's Chart of Coercion
Table illustrating torture on American prisoners of the Korean War
Biderman's Chart of Coercion
Biderman's Chart of Coercion, also called Biderman's Principles, is a table developed in 1957 by American-born sociologist Albert Biderman (1920–2003) to illustrate the methods of Chinese and Korean torture on American prisoners of war from the Korean War. The chart lists eight methods of torture that will psychologically break an individual. In spite of the chart's original Cold War application, Amnesty International has stated that the Chart of Coercion contains the "universal tools of torture and coercion". In the early 2000s, the chart was used by American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. It has also been applied to the psychological abuse used by perpetrators of domestic violence.
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