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	Copycat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Copycat has been in recorded use since at least 1896, in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Country of the Pointed Firs" but the expression could be many decades older.
		Copycat is also the name of a 1995 thriller starring Sigourney Weaver about a serial murderer in San Franscico whose MO is to copy the killings of high profile killers.
		The Copycat effect is where reporting on a tragic event causes others to perform similar behaviour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copycat (440 words)

	Copycat suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
		Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired widespread copycat suicides include the American musician Kurt Cobain and the Japanese musician hide.
		The nature of copycat suicides suggests that it is a phenomenon that must have been with us since the development of civilization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copycat_suicide (915 words)

	Celebrity Suicides Lead to Copycat Effect
		Copycat suicides are more likely to follow the suicide of a celebrity than if a member of the general population takes their own life, US study findings indicate.
		He found that research examining the effect of studies of celebrity suicides were 14.3 times more likely to find a copycat effect than other studies.
		For example, televised suicides were 82% less likely to be associated with a copycat effect than were newspaper reports, possibly because TV coverage tends to last for no more than 20 seconds, while a newspaper can be saved, re-read, and digested.
	suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /celebsuis.html (634 words)

	THE COPYCAT EFFECT
		THE COPYCAT EFFECT How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines (Paraview Publishing- $14), he muses on a plane crash you may vaguely remember.
		In an exact copycat 3 months later, shockingly young boys aged 11 and 13 pulled the fire alarm at a Jonesboro AK junior high school and blasted their classmates (mostly girls) with an arsenal from the woods: 5 dead, 10 wounded.
		Copycatting isn’t rocket science, just simple observations of human nature, and no one is better at that than social scientists like Coleman.
	hammernews.com /copycateffect.htm (4890 words)

	The Copycat Effect: Chatroom Copycats
		The copycat effect is what happens when the media makes an event into a "hot death story" and then via behavior contagion, more deaths, suicides, murders, and more occur in a regularly predictive cycle, as per the book The Copycat Effect (Paraview Pocket - Simon and Schuster).
		In The Copycat Effect, I report on the 2003 deaths of Louis Gillies, 36, and Michael Gooden, 35.
		Loren Coleman has dealt with the Copycat Effect through his federal government funded research work, books, and media consultations for almost three decades.
	copycateffect.blogspot.com /2005/10/chatroom-copycats.html (550 words)

	InPsych highlights August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ironically, the copycat suicide issue is believed by many to be a direct result of the substantial level of public interest and media coverage.
		The first explanation is based on a simple copycat or imitation perspective — “stories provide illustrations of troubled people who opt to suicide as a way out of their troubles.
		However, from his research, Dr Stack believes the strongest indicator of a possible copycat effect is the volume of media coverage an individual suicide receives.
	www.psychology.org.au /publications/inpsych/12.2_81.asp (1638 words)

	The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines by Loren Coleman
		This is The Copycat Effect -- the phenomenon through which violent events spawn violence of the same type.
		From recognizing the emerging patterns of the Copycat Effect, to how we can deal with and counteract its consequences as individuals and as a culture, Loren Coleman has uncovered a tragic flaw of the information age -- a flaw which must be corrected before the next ripples of violence spread.
		As a senior researcher at the Muskie School of Public Policy, University of Southern Maine, from 1983 through 1996, he was the director of eight million dollars’ worth of federal projects, which investigated contagion in suicides, arson, substance abuse, child maltreatment, sexual crime, and other behaviors.
	www.paraview.com /coleman/index4.htm (853 words)

	Copycat Eating Out Restaurants
		CopyCat, or Cc for short, is a copy of her genetic mother, not of...
		CopyCat will copy your selected data set(s) from a local or network drive to the folder(s) of your choice or Zip file(s) on a local or network drive.
		Copycat is a sketchpad that records your writing and speaking as you solve a problem...
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	books about: copycat (baby-sitters exploitation scholastic) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In it we meet Ruby, a new child at school, who is having some difficulty adjusting to her new environment.
		Loren Coleman's "The Copycat Effect" is a well researched and compelling account of how media accounts of suicide trigger off further deaths.
		I personally thought that this book would be great for the little girl who is in ballet school herself, and might have the same problem with one of the girls in her own class.
	www.very-clever.com /books/copycat (1023 words)

	copycat
		Copycat is also the name of a 1990s thriller starring Sigourney Weaver about a serial murderer in San Franscico whose MO is to copy the killings of high profile killers.
		Fearing copycat crimes, the sheriff declines to release home videotapes the two killers made.
		Seven years later, counselor Harriet Hall still isn't sure what sparked the deadly rampage at Columbine High School, but she believes the nation is better prepared to deal with such violence.
	www.governpub.com /Banned-Books-B-C/copycat.php (753 words)

	Celebrity suicides “inspire imitation” - Healthypages news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Studies of entertainment or political celebrity suicides were more than 14 times as likely to find a copycat effect, while fictional suicides were only four times as likely to have a copycat effect.
		However, television coverage had a less powerful effect than newspaper reports of a suicide, possibly because newspapers contain more detail and can be re-read and memorised more easily than television.
		Prof Stack concludes that limiting news reporting of suicide might be the best way of preventing copycat cases, and praises Switzerland and Austria where agreements to this effect have been reached.
	www.healthypages.net /news.asp?newsid=2961 (385 words)

	World Future Society — THE FUTURIST — World Trends & Forecasts
		In his new book The Copycat Effect, social critic Loren Coleman presents abundant evidence that news reports and fictional depictions of violent acts—particularly suicide and murder—directly influence others to commit such acts themselves.
		Despite these recommendations for voluntary action, suicide reporting is still generally sensationalized, and clusters of copycat suicides continue to occur as a direct consequence, Coleman says.
		Ironically, this copycat effect is greatly reduced in places where inadvertent censorship (such as with a newspaper strike) or some even more sensational event (such as the O.J. Simpson case) effectively make ordinary crimes and suicide stories seem relatively insignificant.
	www.wfs.org /trend2mj05.htm (1128 words)

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		This connection is highlighted in Loren Coleman's The Copycat Effect A well researched and compelling account of how media accounts of violence, particularly suicide trigger off further deaths.
		In The Copycat Effect Coleman, a respected authority on suicides and the author of "Suicide Clusters" goes into exhaustive detail and carefully documents the phenomenon of copycat suicides.
		Their fears, desires and weaknesses are touched on a deep level and the copycat effect is triggered.
	www.renaissanceastrology.com /spoonfulofsugar.html (1549 words)

	Face Magazine \| Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Not a day passes without a grotesque murder, or appalling suicide, or some other disturbing act of violence being displayed on the front page of the newspaper or appearing as the lead story on the nightly TV news.
		Author Loren Coleman of Portland, Maine, believes that he understands why this is so, and in his new book, The Copycat Effect, he explains in great detail how the media have created and sustain this culture of violence in order to sell their product.
		This is certainly a harsh accusation to levy against such a large and powerful industry, but in 298 pages of carefully researched, well documented, and clearly written literature, Coleman explains the long history of what is commonly called “copycat” activity, particularly when the imitated actions are acts of violence against others or against oneself.
	www.facemag.com /archive/article.aspx?id=325 (410 words)

	Copycat suicide
		Recent books by Loren Coleman,MSW, entitled Suicide Clusters (1987) and The Copycat Effect (2004) detail case histories of several centuries of copycat suicides.
		Therefore it is customary in some countries that media do not report suicides, except in special cases.
		The committee reviews the voluntary code of standards which are overseen by the Press Complaints Commission.
	www.mrsci.com /Psychiatry/Copycat_suicide.php (933 words)

	NAMC Newswire - Spread of Transit Bombings across Europe Expected by Copycat Effect Researcher
		The news that the deadly London subway and bus bombings were caused by suicide bombers already has an immediate impact on the ranks of potential suicide bombers, as last Thursday’s repeat-bombings show.
		Coleman, who foresaw last summer that beheadings would be copied due to the mass media attention, says that while the media is not to blame, per se, it serves the objectives of the suicide bombers.
		There is mounting evidence that suicide bombings--because of the media attention they receive, the fear they create, the terrorism and copycats they produce--achieve the goals of their suicidal-homicidal actors.
	press.namct.com /content/view/2414/9 (604 words)

	statesman.com
		Studies of celebrity suicides were 14 times more likely to find a copycat effect.
		Studies of real-life suicides, as opposed to fictional suicides, were four times more likely to uncover a copycat effect.
		But research of televised suicides was 82 percent less likely than research of newspaper coverage of suicides to indicate a copycat effect.
	statesman.com /health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/suic/512295.html (216 words)

	Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide -- Stack 8 (Supplement 4): 30 -- Injury Prevention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		a copycat effect than studies that did not.
		copycat effects than studies based on fictional stories.
		The degree of copycat effects may be seriously underestimated
	ip.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/8/suppl_4/iv30 (1955 words)

	Amazon.com: The Copycat Effect : How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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		The most intriguing part of "The Copycat Effect" is the penultimate chapter where Coleman begins to explore what he calls the magnetism of milieu and moment, delving into why certain places and times attract suicides.
		Just a clarification, as the book concerns itself with the triggering effect of contagion via the media, and only senstively discusses all people, whether the suicide victims, the shooters, the people left behind, or any others of those who are killed or survive.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743482239?v=glance (1844 words)

	Paint the Tiger • Carve the Swan » Boing Boing: LA train wreck: the copycat effect
		Boing Boing: LA train wreck: the copycat effect
		Coleman describes the “copycat effect” as “what happens when the media makes an event into a ‘hot death story’ and then via behavior contagion, more deaths, suicides, murders, and more occur in a regularly predictive cycle.”
		Responses to “Boing Boing: LA train wreck: the copycat effect” »
	schinckel.blogsome.com /2005/01/29/boing-boing-la-train-wreck-the-copycat-effect... (177 words)

	THE COPYCAT EFFECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Frank Eugene Corder flew a stolen plane into the White House setting off a chain of copycat attacks on the White House.
		THE COPYCAT EFFECT touches on the power that the media has to paint pictures of events that transpire throughout the world, and how that power can set off a chain of copycat effects.
		Whether it is the spiraling effect suicide has on the youth of today, school shootings, hijackings, or suicide bombers, the media’s focus may play an integral role on the copycat events that often follow.
	www.roundtablereviews.com /roundtable/Archives/colemanloren92204.htm (193 words)

	Copycat - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term copycat (also written as copy-cat or copy cat) refers to the tendency of humans to duplicate the behavior of others, as expressed in the saying, "monkey see, monkey do."
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
		If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
	copycat.quickseek.com (358 words)

	The Copycat Effect: How The Media and Popular Culture Trigger The Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines by Loren Coleman
		That's why Loren Coleman decided to use specific cases to illustrate years of dry research into the area of copycat violence.
		Coleman, a consultant to Maine's Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative, took his examples and put them into a new book, "The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines" (Paraview Pocket Books, $14).
		A: What I did was take the research studies, done from the 1960s through the 1990s, in which people tracked reports in the media and then tracked what kind of causal effect they had in three days, one week, one month.
	www.lorencoleman.com /copycateffect/copycat_effect1.htm (907 words)

	Boing Boing: LA train wreck: the copycat effect
		Separately, a suicidal man who parked his SUV on railroad tracks in Orange County was arrested early Thursday, said Irvine police Cmdr. Dave Freedland, declining to say if it was a copycat situation.
		More copycats from the LA incident are to be expected in a three-day, one-week, and one-month anniversary cycle.
		Coleman describes the "copycat effect" as "what happens when the media makes an event into a 'hot death story' and then via behavior contagion, more deaths, suicides, murders, and more occur in a regularly predictive cycle." Link
	www.boingboing.net /2005/01/28/la_train_wreck_the_c.html (240 words)

	World Future Society -- Futurist Magazine Feedback
		My final recommendation, number seven, is as follows: "(7) And finally, the media should reflect more on their role in creating our increasingly perceived violent society.
		Honest reporting on the positive nature of being alive in the twenty-first century may actually decrease the negative outcomes of the copycat effect, and create a wave of self-awareness that this life is rather good after all.
		The media should 'get real,' and try to use their influence and the copycat effect to spread a little peace rather than mayhem."
	www.wfs.org /futfbmj05.htm (224 words)

	The Copycat Effect
		"If the media uses terms like copycat or copycat killers, then people might be less likely to eat there," Sandelman said.
		There is little doubt that the copycat effect is behind this.
		He is the author, coauthor, or editor of over 25 books, one of which is the acclaimed Suicide Clusters (Faber and Faber, 1987).
	copycateffect.blogspot.com (4927 words)

	The Book Of THoTH - Forums - The Human Condition - The Copycat Effect
		Latest in a series by Coleman on the effects of media and internet coverage of some of the weirder things in life.
		Interesting overall subject about how the media's reporting of events could spur copycat crimes.
		I dont think I'd be too far off the mark in saying that the media is a definite contributing factor.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /ftopict-3210.html (252 words)

	Find in a Library: The copycat effect : how the media and popular culture trigger the mayhem in tomorrow's headlines
		Find in a Library: The copycat effect : how the media and popular culture trigger the mayhem in tomorrow's headlines
		The copycat effect : how the media and popular culture trigger the mayhem in tomorrow's headlines
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/349b88c99dc86f71a19afeb4da09e526.html (79 words)

	American Journalism Review
		As for the copycat question, ``I think the jury is still out,'' says Michele McLellan, public editor at Portland's Oregonian.
		He says the bigger concern should be of the impact of coverage of violence in general.
		Just because there was a shooting in Oregon, he says, the paper shouldn't make big news out of a kid bringing a gun to school in L.A. At the Sun-Times, Wade says he'd cover future school shootings in the same way unless they occurred in Chicago.
	www.ajr.org /article.asp?id=590 (694 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's ...
		A disturbed student shoots up his classroom--and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools.
		This is The Copycat Effect--the phenomenon through which violent events spawn violence of the same type.
		From recognizing the emerging patterns of the Copycat Effect, to how we can deal with and counteract its consequences as individuals and as a culture, Loren Coleman has uncovered a tragic flaw of the information age--a flaw which must be corrected before the next ripples of violence spread.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook26302.htm (293 words)

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