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Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings

BACKGROUND: Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community, apparently due to the coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals to commit similar acts. METHODS: Here we exp...

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Autores principales: Towers, Sherry, Gomez-Lievano, Andres, Khan, Maryam, Mubayi, Anuj, Castillo-Chavez, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26135941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117259