Stockholm Syndrome as Vernacular Resource

@article{Adorjan2012StockholmSA,
  title={Stockholm Syndrome as Vernacular Resource},
  author={Michael Adorjan and Tony Christensen and Benjamin Kelly and Dorothy Pawluch},
  journal={The Sociological Quarterly},
  year={2012},
  volume={53},
  pages={454 - 474},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:141676449}
}
First coined in 1973 to describe a pathological response on the part of individuals involved in kidnapping or hostage-taking situations, the label “Stockholm syndrome” has since been used in a much… 
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