The cultural dynamics of copycat suicide

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Mesoudi, Alex ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; IMITATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 70349664084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007252     Document Type: Article

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