What is it about?
Stockholm syndrome is often used to explain why hostages side with their captors. The term came from a 1973 Swedish bank robbery and was never tested by research. This article shows it gained authority because one profession after another adopted it.
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Why is it important?
The label is still used in courtrooms and clinics to judge victims, especially women. It treats sensible survival responses as a disorder. Seeing how it spread helps professionals question other ideas that have no evidence behind them.
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This page is a summary of: Stockholm Syndrome: Origins, Evidence, and Institutional Legitimation, September 2026, Center for Open Science,
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/a7vwm_v1.
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