Pod Only Knows #032 – Stockholm Syndrome: The Story of a Dumb Idea
Stockholm Syndrome is a really good MUSE song. Unfortunately, it’s not a good anything else.0
On a recent episode of television’s worst show, The Five on Fox News, panelist Jessica Tarlov, herself Jewish, asked her fellow panelist Greg Gutfeld why Jews tend to be Democrat and not Republican. His answer? Stockholm syndrome.
Most people could probably give a decent summary of what Stockholm syndrome supposedly is – the phenomenon of a hostage coming sympathize and even identify with their captor – but few of them would be able to accurately recount the story that gave rise to its supposed existence.
This stubbornly enduring – and almost certainly wrong – belief has gone on to influence the way we think about why people take on certain political positions, join cults, or even adhere to extremist religious views. So we decided it was worth taking a look at the story at its center to find out what it can tell us about why we are so wrong about how we think about out other people think.
Of the many resources used for this episode, none was better at filling in the most important gaps than Rebecca Armitage’s piece for ABC News Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/is-stockholm-syndrome-a-myth/102738084
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