Scientists have tested whether insomnia torture is really effective during interrogation. In the researchers' experiment
Law enforcement officials have longuses sleep deprivation as a tool to extract confessions from suspects. A PhD in personality and social psychology from Iowa State University decided to scientifically test the effectiveness of torture.
120 volunteers were asked to remember certaininformation and divide them into groups. Members of the first group slept normally for two days, members of the second group slept one to two hours less, and members of the third group slept 4.5 hours less.
The volunteers were then “interrogated.” Those people who greatly reduced their sleep time told scientists 20% less information.
According to Popular Mechanics, the researchers concluded that sleep deprivation torture does not make people more willing to give out information.