Sociological theories discuss power relationships and power imbalances as the basis for these behaviors.
Object relations theory and Psychoanalytic theory would explain the behavior as a result of the psychological mechanism of identification with the aggressor.While an evolutionary psychological explanation for the Stockholm syndrome is one hypothesis regarding the basis for these behaviors, there are other equally plausible explanations that have more empirical research to support them. By the second day, the hostages were on a first-name basis with their captors, and they started to fear. The concepts of Capture-bonding or Stockholm syndrome can be used to understand historical events from the Rape of the Sabine Women to the accounts of Europeans who were captured and assimilated into Native American tribes.Īlternative hypotheses Main article: Evolutionary psychology controversy The story behind the Stockholm Syndrome is a 1973 six-day hostage event in a Swedish bank. Feeling safe and secured while held captive. Feeling sad at the thought of separating from the captor or abuser. Nightmares, sleeplessness, flashbacks of the trauma. Stockholm syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons in a captive or hostage situation. Feelings of love, empathy, and a desire to protect the captor or abuser. Title, Hostage Psychology and the Stockholm Syndrome: Captive, Captor and Captivity. In 1973, two men entered the Kreditbanken bank in Stockholm, Sweden, intending to rob it. In the view of evolutionary psychology "the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors." Unexplained emotional attachment towards the captor or abuser. Many people have a pretty good idea of what Stockholm syndrome is based on the origin of the term alone. Abduction of women, rape, accusations of adultery, and broken promises of marriage are widespread direct causes of reproductive conflict, while resource competition in order to be able to afford more women and children is an indirect cause as well as a direct one. Although human males are less polygynous than those of some other species, they still compete over the quality and number of women that they can have.
ĭeadly violence is also regularly activated in competition over women. Those who continued to resist, because they didn't have this trait, often may not have reproduced. Those who had the psychological traits (posited to be a gene-based mechanisms) that led them to socially reorient after a few days (i.e., bond) to their captors survived to pass on the trait. The hypothesis is that ancient humans, usually female, were commonly and often violently captured from one tribe by another. The evolutionary origin of this psychological phenomenon is hypothesized to come from evolutionary selection. In both cases the victims bonded to their captors and resisted leaving them.
It is a hypothetical construct that proports to describe an evolutionary-based psychological mechanism exemplified by the behavior of Elizabeth Smart in Salt Lake City in 2003 or that of Patty Hearst when she was abducted in 1974. Capture-bonding is a hypothetical construct based in evolutionary psychology to explain Stockholm syndrome.
0 kommentar(er)
