The term stockholm syndrome refers to a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them.

While they are strengthening neural circuits controlling their online worlds, development lags in other critical abilities: conversing face-to-face, expressing empathy and acquiring complex reasoning and planning skills.

They also expressed empathy for the sufferings of the proletariat.

Those who have enormous capacity for feeling and expressing empathy tend to be more at risk of compassion stress.