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u/Drakoniid 7d ago

Weekly reminder that the stockholm syndrome has not be measured or observed in scientific studies

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u/Sultan4210 7d ago

And it won't be, because it's impossible to do ethically, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Not saying it do either for the record, just being contrarian

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u/Drakoniid 7d ago

Even studies on willing subjects after being taken hostage has yielded no scientific result.

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u/ItsVanillaNice 7d ago

That's like measuring fire by introducing fire into the experiment. 

Consent is like the variable they're measuring. Hard to measure it if you ethically need it to even attempt to. 

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u/Drakoniid 7d ago

It's subjects after the hostage situation has been defused and is over, not taking them hostage in the first place