Thomas E. Joiner, Jr在其报告“The Clustering and Contagion of Suicide”中认为,容易自杀的人通常在任何自杀发生之前就聚集在一起,一旦这个群体发生了负性事件,那么群体的自杀倾向会增加,这种增加可以通过社会的支持关心而减弱抵消;以核辐射类比,即当弱势群体(容易自杀者)受到核辐射影响(负性事件)时,集体死亡事件会发生。
The Clustering and Contagion of Suicide,Thomas E.Joiner,Jr. Current Directions in Psychological Science 1999 8:89 DOI : 10.1111/1467-8721.00021
Phillips, D.P., & Carstensen, L.L. (1986). Clustering of teenage suicides after television news stories about suicide. New England Journal of Medicine, 315, 685–689.
Phillips, D.P., & Paight, D.J. (1987). The impact of televised movies about suicide: A replicative study. New England Journal of Medicine, 317,809–811
外部連結
Copycat Effect (Article that discusses the how the sensational coverage of violent events tends to provoke similar events and the journalistic ethics involved).