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The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide (2009)
Journal Article
Mesoudi, A. (2009). The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide. PLoS ONE, 4(9), Article e7252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007252

The observation that suicides sometimes cluster in space and/or time has led to suggestions that these clusters are caused by the social learning of suicide-related behaviours, or “copycat suicides”. Point clusters are clusters of suicides localised... Read More about The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide.