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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...
Autores principales: | Towers, Sherry, Gomez-Lievano, Andres, Khan, Maryam, Mubayi, Anuj, Castillo-Chavez, Carlos |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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