Citation

Lester D, Fleck J. Psychol. Rep. 2010; 106(1): 189-192.

Affiliation

Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20402443

Abstract

51 students and 20 experts judged 20 behaviors which might be considered to be suicide in a similar fashion with the exception that the experts were less likely to see a dog who refuses to eat and dies as a suicide. Applying models proposed for how people categorize objects, it is argued that both experts and lay people use a prototypical approach rather than a feature comparison approach for defining suicide.

Language: en