Citation

Hughes J. J. Appl. Behav. Anal. 2009; 42(2): 491-496.

Affiliation

York Central Hospital, Ontario, Canada. behaviour.mgmt@bellnet.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Wiley-Blackwell)

DOI

10.1901/jaba.2009.42-491

PMID

19949541

PMCID

PMC2695358

Abstract

In the current study, the audiotapes from three hostage-taking situations were analyzed. Hostage negotiator requests to the hostage taker were characterized as either high or low probability. The results suggested that hostage-taker compliance to a hostage negotiator's low-probability request was more likely when a series of complied-with high-probability requests preceded the low-probability request. However, two of the three hostage-taking situations ended violently; therefore, the implications of the high-probability request sequence for hostage-taking situations should be assessed in future research.

Language: en