Stuffleufagus

Interesting that this post pops up right after the Violent Acres post I just commented on.  But they fit well together, so I post it here, and link it back to VA.

BTW - I love the Damned Interesting site.  I just wish they posted more often.

Rob 

In such cases, it is extremely easy to blame the victims; it seems very plausible that the kidnapped individuals were simply not clever, resourceful, or courageous enough to flee their respective abductors. However, this disturbing tendency has little to do with any supposed weakness on the part of the victim. Given the right conditions, abductors are able to exert an astonishing amount of influence over their victims - to the point at which the captive has full loyalty to his or her captor while believing that this was his or her own choice. It is a cognitive phenomenon related to brainwashing and known as Stockholm syndrome.

Source: Damn Interesting » Sympathy for the Devil

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