Emotional Hate interrogation techniques

Emotional hate interrogation techniques are a method to induce a prisoner to cooperate with interrogators, by such means as presenting evidence that he was abandoned by his own side, or convincing him, by other argument, that he should hate his former comrades. If the prisoner does believe this, it is logical for him to cooperate, especially if he is offered a means of revenge. In the guidance for interrogation at Guantanamo detention camp, it was described as playing on the hate of the subject for an individual or group. the incentive can also be the stopping of even indirect coercion.

A variant would involve convincing, or reinforcing, the prisoner that his comrades will hate or reject him. This was almost a given in Second World War interrogation of Japanese military prisoners, whose cultural conditioning was that death was preferable to captivity, and who had a moral obligation to commit suicide rather than surrender or be captured. A captured pilot was described as "...pleasantly resigned to going to the States and working there even as a prisoner for the rest of his life."