“Captives may also develop some sympathy for their captors as - TopicsExpress



          

“Captives may also develop some sympathy for their captors as they get to know them. This phenomenon is graphically illustrated in a Stockholm incident in which people who were held hostage for six days by bank robbers began to sympathize with their criminal captors and sided with them against the police (Lang, 1974).“ Mindblowing! WTF?? Cant imagine me sympathizing with my abductor if that happens to me! Well, actually, this result was trying to prove the fact that humanization(thinking/understanding their abductors as human beings) increases empathy and reduces the need to act punitively.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:26:11 +0000

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