Military cadets have abandoned trained interrogation methods to imitate Jack Bauer

Evidence

West Point faculty stated that it is not uncommon for a tortured suspect to provide false information in order to stop whatever is being done to him; it can take weeks or even months for a suspect to break, and some die in the process. They stated that a more realistic scenario would be to spend months with a prisoner establishing trust (which is how Sleeper Cell portrayed torture). West Point faculty have witnessed military cadets disregard their training in order to mimic Jack Bauer. Tony Lagouranis, a former U.S. Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib, stated that such programs can trump the military training that soldiers receive. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 294

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what formal studies substantiate the claimed influence of 24’s torture scenes on actual interrogators’ behavior?
• SEED: An article angle: fictional media as counter-training — the documented cases where entertainment programming overrides institutional training in real-world professions.