Long-term hostages tend to identify with their captor's point of view over time and voluntarily comply with their demands. This phenomenon is called

A. the prisoner's dilemma.
B. the Belgian illusion.
C. the Stockholm syndrome.
D. going native.


Answer: C

Sociology

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