User talk:Hkhenson/Capture bonding

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Official uses of the term "Capture bonding"

 * Traumatic entrapment, appeasement and complex post-traumatic stress disorder: evolutionary perspectives of hostage reactions, domestic abuse and the Stockholm syndrome.


 * "In hunter-gatherers women have been remarkably frequently kidnapped by opposing tribes, with little likelihood of rescue. From an evolutionary perspective defiance in such circumstances carries the prospect of death and the non-transmission of such defiant genetic traits.  Defection by way of submission may promote genetic survival. This has been described as 'capture-bonding' (Henson, 2002). Thus the transmission of genes for appeasement may have been facilitated.


 * Becoming a Sadomasochist: Integrating Self and Other in Ethnographic Analysis (Mirror: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wchriste/357/Newmahr.pdf)


 * "On an emotional level, I found my response both unexpected and bizarre. I would not have been surprised to feel anger, catharsis, resentment, victimization, turmoil of one sort or another, all of which I had been prepared to explore in a participant-observation study of SM. I did not expect gratitude to be a salient and profound part of my experience. My first impulse was to pathologize my response; was this, I wondered, something similar to “capture-bonding,” the psychological explanation for Stockholm syndrome? Knowing little about Stockholm syndrome, but doubting that a forty-minute consensual flogging scene would have produced it, I moved beyond the discourse of pathology."


 * The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity


 * "About 1980 John Tooby, then in graduate school, discussed the concept of capture-bonding with various other students--reportedly reaching the same conclusion as the author about its evolutionary origin and widespread effects on humans and human societies. (Personal communication with Leda Cosmides.) Astonishingly, neither he nor anyone else known to the author has published on the subject."


 * Sex, Drugs, and Cults. An evolutionary psychology perspective on why and how cult memes get a drug-like hold on people, and what might be done to mitigate the effects.


 * "In the aggregate, memes constitute human culture. Most are useful. But a whole class of memes (cults, ideologies, etc.) have no obvious replication drivers. Why are some humans highly susceptible to such memes? Evolutionary psychology is required to answer this question. Two major evolved psychological mechanisms emerge from the past to make us susceptible to cults. Capture-bonding exemplified by Patty Hearst and the Stockholm Syndrome is one."


 * Human Chemistry (Volume Two)


 * "Capture-bonding theories are used to explain various relationships, such as kidnapping or tribe takeover, in which a person seems to be 'caught' unhealthily or abnormally in a bond, even when given many chances to escape. The general explanation is that a sort of reverse-psychological mechanism or perspective develops in which, after a traumatic event, the captive person willing desires or stays in the bond. In abnormal psychology, battered women syndrome, where a woman stays bonded to a man who beats her. is an example of an activated capture-bond. In evolutionary psychology, capture-bonding is understood as an evolved response to inter-tribe 'capture' and takeover, which has been a prominent feature of human existence during the last few million years, such as infanticide, which occurs frequently in the animal kingdom."


 * Psychology Behind Ragging © Harsh Agarwal, 2010


 * "According to evolutionary psychology, capture-bonding, or social reorientation after capture, was an essential survival feature for millions of years. The captives who reoriented survived, and those who did not form social bonds with captors were killed. Psychologists say that anyone can become a victim of Stockholm Syndrome if the certain conditions are met: (i) Perceived threat to survival (ii) The captive's perception of small kindnesses from the captor (iii) Isolation from perspectives other than those of the captor (iv) Perceived inability to escape. And it is said that it takes as little as 3-4 days for this psychology to take hold of the victim." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slartibartfastibast (talk • contribs) 20:37, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Personal Anecdote
A very dear friend of mine was in an abusive relationship that she was convinced was "her fault" (loud arguments are not generally considered bruise-worthy offenses). I carefully explained the details behind Stockholm syndrome and battered person (which, for readily apparent physical reasons, almost always means "battered wife") syndrome. She eventually filed for divorce. The evolutionary context I had provided was a major component in her recovery. The fact that evolutionary psychology is a touchy subject to bring up around the willfully ignorant members of our species does not affect its validity in the slightest.



Slartibartfastibast (talk) 18:08, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Question About Children
Psychologists say that anyone can become a victim of Stockholm Syndrome if the certain conditions are met: (i) Perceived threat to survival (ii) The captive's perception of small kindnesses from the captor (iii) Isolation from perspectives other than those of the captor (iv) Perceived inability to escape.
 * How can capture-bonding be discussed without reference to children? All of the above conditions apply to almost every child.
 * Goscuter1 15:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goscuter1 (talk • contribs)