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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Wasn't that one of the things that ended up being made up ? (The original Stockholm syndrome study or whatever)
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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I mean the original study fabricated things , but there are so many like that I don't remember anymore if this was one of them
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I'm not certain, but I don't think there's ever been a central formal study for it
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