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Comment author: gwern 20 March 2012 06:43:12PM 15 points [-]

Would such a woman ever so much as weave a basket for her captor voluntarily?

Stockholm effect. IIRC, in studies of aborigines like the Yanomano, they find that kidnapped women are common in family trees and also that men have very high death rates from homicide, implying both that the women did indeed do more than basket-weaving for their captors and they are nontrivially likely to have a dead relative.

Comment author: pedanterrific 20 March 2012 06:50:45PM 3 points [-]

Would such a woman ever so much as weave a basket for her captor voluntarily?

in studies of aborigines like the Yanomano, they find that kidnapped women are common in family trees [...] implying both that the women did indeed do more than basket-weaving for their captors

How does this address the question?

Comment author: gwern 20 March 2012 06:59:09PM 5 points [-]

Er... because do you think the Yanomano man is standing there, shaking the non-existent shackles, saying 'weave a basket and bear my children!' every minute of the day? Such guard labor would be impossibly expensive.

So the point stands. They can and do.

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