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- Title
The Anatomy of a Hostage Situation.
- Authors
Wesselius, Cassie L.; DeSarno, James V.
- Abstract
The authors have attempted to exemplify the social-psychological interplay between hostage and hostage taker and to dissect the impact of this type of event by focusing on one hostage-taking incident. The event described it representative of many incidents in which the hostage taker acts alone, without a supporting organization, and is primarily motivated by expressive needs. The hostages suffered many common emotions and symptoms. Each hostage also suffered in an individual way, determined in part by preceding events and dynamics and in part by the roles they assumed within the hostage situation. The more common Hostage Response Syndrome included the overt appearance of the Stockholm Syndrome in only one of the hostages.
- Subjects
HOSTAGES; EMOTIONS; SOCIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; HOSTAGE negotiations; INTERPERSONAL relations; BASIC needs; MOTIVATION (Psychology); EXPRESSIVE behavior; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1983, Vol 1, Issue 2, p33
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370010207