Wasn't that one of the things that ended up being made up ? (The original Stockholm syndrome study or whatever)
Stockholm syndrome is just one manifestation of a much larger and broader human tendency to pragmatically reinterpret situations one can't opt out of. Understanding this makes group behavior *much* easier to make sense of
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Depends on what you mean by "made up." It's not as common as a lot of people think it is (but then, it's not actually pragmatic in *most* hostage situations) and doesn't necessarily persist in some predictable fashion
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This is definitely behind the ubiquitous fetishizing of death throughout history.
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I was going to comment "deathism" just now. So much of our civil religion is unacknowledged coping strategies.
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A related term (I think used more by sociologists than psychologists) is 'adaptive preference'.
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Preference Falsification “preference falsification ... shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities.”https://books.google.com/books?id=ADPEDwAAQBAJ …
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Those of us not subject to it scare those of us who are.
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