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bogus comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Gondolinian 08 December 2014 03:39PM

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Comment author: bogus 11 December 2014 09:32:20AM 4 points [-]

PTSS almost seems like a culture-bound syndrome of the modern West.

There are significant confounders here, as modern science-based psychology got started around the same time - and WWI really was very different from earlier conflicts, not least in its sheer scale. But the idea is nonetheless intriguing; the West really is quite different from traditional societies, along lines that could plausibly make folks more vulnerable to traumatic shock.