Citation

Vanderweele TJ, Mathur MB, Chen Y. JAMA Psychiatry 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Human Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0842

PMID

31141100

Abstract

Accounts of contagion in suicide abound. For example, Émile Durkheim’s 1897 book Suicide: A Study in Sociology documents multiple striking incidents. We might wonder then whether such contagion extends also to the portrayal of suicide in the media. The evidence is mixed. A recent meta-analysis by Ferguson concluded that “evidence is not able to support the contention that fictional depictions of suicide lead to suicide contagion in viewers.” Yet ...

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