What is Stockholm Syndrome? How can it be explained?

What will be an ideal response?


• It is a phenomenon named for an incident in Stockholm, Sweden, where four bank employees were held hostage in the bank's vault for four days.
• Following the ordeal, the women's expressions of gratitude toward the offenders were disturbing to many people.
• It is a predictable and normal response to abnormal circumstances.
• The development of an emotional bond between persons who share a life-threatening experience.
• It is a bond that can unite them against outsiders.
• It can be seen as an adaptive human response to the violent scenarios played out with them as hapless, reluctant, and helpless players.
• It is known from studies in social psychology that people who are exposed to intermittent kindnesses by the captor—kindnesses that emerge within the context of a life-and-death situation form which there is only limited possibility of escape.
• Captives may bond with captors and even testify on his behalf in the in the eventual court proceedings.

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