* Gregor S, Copycat suicide: The influence of the media 2004, Australian Psychological Society

Social proof has been proposed as an explanation for Copycat suicide, where suicide rates increase following media publication about suicides.

* Copycat suicide

# Death is a Copycat by Donald Moffitt

Copycat is a model of analogy making and human cognition based on the concept of the parallel terraced scan, developed in 1988 by Douglas Hofstadter, Melanie Mitchell, and others at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University Bloomington.

The original Copycat was written in Common Lisp and is bitrotten ( as it relies on now-outdated graphics libraries ); however, a Java port exists.

Copycat produces answers to such problems as " abc is to abd as xyz is to what?

Copycat is Hofstadter's most popular model.

The parallel terraced scan is a multi-agent based search technique that is basic to cognitive architectures, such as Copycat, Letter-string, the Examiner, Tabletop, and others.

* Copycat Effect-review of Coleman's book on tendency of publicity about mass deaths to provoke more with section on postal shootings

" " Copycat " films financed, or partially financed, by German production companies included Mark of the Devil ( 1970 ), with Herbert Lom and Udo Kier, The Bloody Judge ( 1970 ), directed by Jesus Franco and starring Christopher Lee, and Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält ( 1973 ), released in the U. S. years later on video as Mark of the Devil Part II.

Ómar Swarez rapped several verses on " Stick ' Em Up " and " Weirdo ", and rapped a verse on " Baseline ", " Copycat ", and " Fuck You Puto ".

* The Feverfew covered the song on their 2011 release The Copycat EP

He embarked on a search for Copycat, and was captured by Sinsear.

At the University of Michigan and Indiana University, he co-authored, with Melanie Mitchell, a computational model of " high-level perception " – Copycat – and several other models of analogy-making and cognition, including the Tabletop project, co-developed with Robert M. French.

The Copycat project was subsequently extended under the name " Metacat " by Hofstadter's doctoral student James Marshall.

He played a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, before being cast as jet fighter pilot in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.

His first thriller film since Copycat came in 2007, when he played the violent ex-husband in Bug, before two romantic comedies, 2007's P. S.

In his third film Copycat, Connick played a serial killer.

Released in 1995, Copycat also starred Holly Hunter and Sigourney Weaver.

Transgender issues also come up with shapechangers like Mystique, Copycat, and Courier who can change gender at will.

She played the role of agoraphobic criminal psychologist Helen Hudson in the 1995 movie Copycat.

* Chun, Lt. Col. Clayton K. S. Shooting down a " Star ": Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and Present-Day Copycat Killers.

During his brief heyday, Sherman's parodies were so popular that he had at least one contemporary imitator: My Son the Copycat was an album of song parodies performed by Stanley Ralph Ross, co-written by Ross and Bob Arbogast.

Copycat Killer.

Some examples of crime thrillers involving murderers include, Seven, No Country for Old Men, Silence of the Lambs, Untraceable, Mindhunters, Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider and Copycat.

Copycat features a serial killer character who calls himself Peter Kuerten.

* DeSalvo was one of the serial killers whose murders were recreated by the killer in the movie Copycat.

Tolliver hired the mercenary Deadpool and his girlfriend Copycat to kidnap Domino.

Copycat took Domino's place and infiltrated X-force, but she was later found out and Cable freed Domino.

Other products in which Miles had interests, such as photocopiers became Copycat Ltd.

Nicknamed the " Copycat Clone Club " by Angela, January Cole and Karlene Trainor are Nanette ’ s best friends — treated more like her servants — who follow Nanette around wherever she goes ; basically her girl posse.

There is only one escape left, a tragic one, and too many people are taking it: suicide.

Alex is then subjected to a relentless barrage of classical music, prompting him to attempt suicide by leaping from a high window.

Alex wakes up in hospital, where he is courted by government officials anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt.

He tried but failed to write a letter to her, and he still grieves for his loss .</ br > Grand is a neighbor of Cottard, and it is he who calls Rieux for help, when Cottard tries to commit suicide.

While down there, along with the dead, he is shown the place where the wrongly convicted reside, the fields of sorrow where those who committed suicide and now regret it reside, including Aeneas ' former lover, the warriors and shades, Tartarus ( where the titans and powerful non-mortal enemies of the Olympians reside ) where he can hear the groans of the imprisoned, the palace of Pluto, and the fields of Elysium where the descendants of the divine and bravest heroes reside.

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

Anne finds Henrik, who is attempting to commit suicide.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

Amok episodes of this kind normally end with the attacker being killed by bystanders or committing suicide, eliciting theories that amok may be a form of intentional suicide in cultures where suicide is heavily stigmatized.

Some observers have related this explanation to Islam's ban on suicide, which, it is suggested, drove Malay men to create circumstances in which others would kill them.

If the individual is seeking death an alternate method is often suicide by cop.

Considering Dio must have read Tacitus, it is worth noting he mentions nothing about suicide ( which was also how Postumus and Nero ended their lives ).

One out of three people with bipolar disorder report past attempts of suicide or complete it, and the annual average suicide rate is 0. 4 %, which is 10 to 20 times that of the general population.

The standardized mortality ratio from suicide in bipolar disorder is between 18 and 25.

It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.

A similar story is reported by Flavius Josephus during the siege of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 AD ( see Mary of Bethezuba ), and the population of Numantia during the Roman Siege of Numantia in the 2nd century BC was reduced to cannibalism and suicide.