Papageno v Werther effect

Sensationalist media reports, as in Hong Kong’s print media,1 can trigger further suicides—the Werther effect.2 However, we recently found that the effects of suicide related news stories was broad and sometimes protective, depending on the contents of the story.3 …

[1]  J. Parry.  Can media depictions of suicide influence copycat acts? , 2010, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[2]  M. Voracek,et al.  Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects. , 2010, The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science.

[3]  D. Phillips.  The influence of suggestion on suicide: substantive and theoretical implications of the Werther effect. , 1974, American sociological review.