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A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
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Social contagions such as fads, hysteria, copycat crime, and copycat suicide exemplify memes seen as the contagious imitation of ideas.
Suicide clusters are caused by the social learning of suicide related behaviors, or " copycat suicides ".
Stack analyzed the results from 42 studies and found that those measuring the effect of a celebrity suicide story were 14. 3 times more likely to find a copycat effect than studies that did not.
An alternate model to explain copycat suicide, called " social proof " by Cialdini, goes beyond the theories of glorification and simplification of reasons to look at why copycat suicides are so similar, demographically and in actual methods, to the original publicized suicide.
This model is important because it has nearly opposite ramifications for what the media ought to do about the copycat suicide effect than the standard model does.
* Misao Fujimura — high school student studying philosophy who wrote the suicide note on a tree ; the suicide resulted in many copycat suicides ( see Werther effect ).
Berman and Wallace suggest that this may have been a ' copycat suicide '; on hearing of his friend Hemingway's suicide in 1961, Belmonte is said to have answered ' Well done.
One study using agent-based modeling showed that copycat suicides are more likely when there are similarities between the person involved in the publicized suicide and the potential copycats.
* BBC News, LA suicide crash ' spawns copycat '.
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One argument states that Plautus writes with originality and creativity — the other, that Plautus is a copycat of Greek New Comedy and that he makes no original contribution to playwriting.
Much of the popularity of these sorts of stories, which are not considered historical whodunnits by everyone in the genre, is driven by the runaway success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and its prequel, Angels and Demons, and various copycat titles.
* To keep the game from ending in a draw due to copycat moves, there is an additional rule: no player may move a piece onto their opponent's home row if that move creates a pattern of left-to-right symmetry on the board.
During a storm, Rider and Torrie's newborn baby is kidnapped, a copycat of the recent Lindbergh tragedy.
In 2004, Rodale filed suit against Men's Fitness for its redesign which makes it " a copycat version -- one that is obviously intended to confuse consumers.
* March 8, 1990 – The first of the copycat Zodiac Killer Heriberto Seda's eight shooting victims is wounded in an attack in Brooklyn.
Forensic psychiatrists attribute this to copycat behaviour, which is in many cases triggered by sensational media treatment.
A character also comes to Ellis ' Halloween party dressed as Patrick Bateman, and a copycat killer is seemingly patterning himself on Bateman.
Similarly, in one of the most vigorous markets for comics is in Japan, where " Some 40 percent of publications are comics, and 30 percent of publication revenue derives from comics ", one main driving force in this dynamic market is doujinshi, which is a kind of copycat technique.
GX, Yugi's deck goes on tour at the academy, and is stolen by a copycat duelist.
Although he is clearly a copycat of Stuart, Leon does seem more self-confident on his show, which could be a reason for his greater success.
Meanwhile, Batman is on the trail of a copycat vigilante in a bat-mask while trying to stop the violence his publicity might cause.
As far as A is concerned, it is doing a perfect random walk, while B is the copycat.
This is list of the programmes or the copycat versions of the programme 100 Greatest Britons.
After Reese is executed, Hobbes and his partner Jonesy ( John Goodman ) investigate a string of murders by an apparent copycat killer.
It has been claimed that the gap of 18 months between the first two killings is unusual with serial killers, the later two may have been copycat killings, and the police may even have hampered their own investigation by prematurely jumping to the conclusion that they were the work of the same person.
The bombing occurred only 1 day after the Oklahoma City bombing and is considered to be a copycat action.
The comic is similar to Viz, although is considered to be a downmarket copycat of Viz, being less subtle and lacking in Viz's surreal satire, and printed on lower quality paper.
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Researchers, however, discovered that he actually had lived in a copycat home designed by another builder instead.
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Here we meet King Aster ( the leader of resistance against the Empire ), Teran ( a young boy attempting to get into the resistance ) and other secondary characters, such as Calina, Marina's enemy and copycat.
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Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, and it spawned many imitators — in fact, it and similar plays reportedly caused so many real-life " copycat " suicides that the government banned shinju mono ( plays about lovers ' double suicides ) in 1723.
Other scholars have been less certain about whether copycat suicides truly happen or are selectively hyped.
* Jackson, Constance, Blitz Attack: The Andrea Hines Story ( 2005 ), documentary film about the Nicole Brown Simpson copycat murder.
Molly learns about echos and Loonette learns that being a copycat isn't exactly a good idea.
He first appeared when Sky went to question him about Slate, and in exchange for something for his collection, he told Sky about the copycat.
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It was actually Kubrick himself who decided to withdraw the film from exhibition in the UK on police advice after receiving death threats toward himself and his family, as well as disliking reports found in the British Press that the film was responsible for copycat violence.
During Beausoleil's trial for the murder of Hinman, the defense, in order to discredit the prosecution's case, argued that the crimes were copycat murders made to misdirect police suspicion away from Beausoleil.
After Malone's departure from the show, Dena Higley continued this storyline, as a copycat killer murdered characters on the show exactly as had occurred in the book.
After comparing it with the handwriting of genuine Black Bart poetry from the past, he declared the new holdup was the work of a copycat criminal.
Because of fierce competition from copycat products, the company has always responded by being proactive in their patenting and has over 600 United States granted design patents to their name.
Talking Turkey was one of many such comics emulating the success of Viz, yet departed from the usual crude copycat approach of many of its peers by combining ' classic ' underground strips with modern content by recognised cartoonists.
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