How Should the Media Cover Suicides? A New Study Has Some Answers:
It’s no secret to mental health experts that exposure to suicide, either directly or through media and entertainment, may make people more likely to resort to suicidal behaviors themselves. The phenomenon even has a name: suicide contagion.
And a new paper, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, says some specific journalistic practices — such as including lots of details about a death by suicide, or glamorizing these incidents — may make suicide contagion worse.
от себя добавлю: Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children, no contagion found here somehow. or maybe it's the game manufacturers lobby's lurking somewhere behind the scene?
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