Celebs spawn copycat suicides, study confirms
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Dr Alex Mesoudi, from Queen Mary's newly established Research Centre for Psychology, has found evidence that the increasing reach and influence of the media, combined with a growing number of people assigned celebrity status, could increase the probability of widespread suicide pandemics. The study is published today in the peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE.