Thursday, October 7, 2010

Syndromes and Handmaid's Tale

We've mentioned several psychological syndromes and experiments that are relevant to our study of Handmaid's Tale. In case any of you want to follow up, I thought I'd include some links here.

FBI website about understanding Stockholm Syndrome (where a captive or prisoner begins to empathize with the captor)

The Stanford Prison Experiment, which we discussed in class, a troubling reflection on the effect of being a prisoner or a guard on one's behavior.

The Kitty Genovese Syndrome, more commonly known as the "Bystander effect," named (well, the first name is named) after the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. An article questioning it is worth a look as well.

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