is known as the Werther effect, after rumours of such a spike following the publication of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Suicides occasionally...

The Sorrows of Young Werther ([ˈveːɐ̯tɐ]; German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe...

reporting has been linked to increased rail suicide attempts due to Werther effect. In Germany, the number of rail suicides grew significantly after the...

Restorff effect Wagon-wheel effect Well travelled road effect Werther effect Westermarck effect Word frequency effect Word superiority effect Worse-than-average...

media, many others killed themselves in this way (an example of the Werther effect). Within two months, charcoal-burning had become the third major suicide...

copycat suicide is known as the "Werther effect", named after the protagonist in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther who killed himself and then was...

suicides increased dramatically. This effect is more generally known as Werther effect and was referred to as Enke effect (German: Enke-Effekt) by German media...

via NYTimes.com. "Rookie actor Cha In-ha's suicide raises concern of 'Werther effect'". The Korea Times. December 4, 2019. Archived from the original on...

Volker; Kraeuchi, Kurt; Hoffmann-Richter, Ulrike (Summer 2003). "The Werther Effect and Assisted Suicide". Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 33 (2):...

Hand," Legacy, Vol. 25, no. 1, 2008. pp. 41–61. Tobin Siebers, “The Werther Effect: The Esthetics of Suicide,” Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 26, 1993. Baldick...