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Copycat Effects of Fictional Suicide: a Meta-Analysis (IN: Suicide and the Creative Arts, edited by S Stack & D Lester)
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This chapter provides a quantitative review of the literature on fictional suicide (movies, novels, & plays) & its effects on contagion & imitative suicide in the real world. Hypotheses are tested on under what conditions the fictional stories will be most likely to elicit copycat effects. This study supplements a previous review which only examined nonfictional media role models (Stack, 2005). (64 refs.)