Berman A L
Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, DC 20016.
Am J Psychiatry. 1988 Aug;145(8):982-6. doi: 10.1176/ajp.145.8.982.
Studies of imitative suicide by viewers of fictional depictions of suicide in television films have produced contradictory findings. Using a nationwide sample of cases of suicide, the author found no evidence for increased numbers of suicides after broadcast of three films. However, some support was found for an imitation effect specific to the depiction of a suicide method in one of these films (p less than 0.05). To the extent that fictional presentations of suicide may serve as stimuli for imitative behavior, the effect appears to depend on a complex interaction among characteristics of the stimulus, the observer of that stimulus, and conditions of time and geography.
关于电视电影中虚构自杀情节的观众模仿自杀的研究得出了相互矛盾的结果。作者通过对全国范围内的自杀案例进行抽样调查，发现播放三部电影后自杀人数并未增加。然而，在其中一部电影中，发现了对特定自杀方法描绘的模仿效应存在一定支持证据（p小于0.05）。就虚构的自杀情节可能成为模仿行为的刺激因素而言，这种效应似乎取决于刺激因素的特征、该刺激因素的观察者以及时间和地理条件之间的复杂相互作用。
