Showing posts with label Hostages. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Also a Way of Life: [L]oving Your Captors

From Wikipedia: In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims. (courtesy of CubsMagicNumber)