Author: Coleman, Loren.
Title: The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines.
Description: New York Pocket Books, 2004. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 308 pp. A disturbed student shoots up his classroom - and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping schools. A surfer is attacked by a shark - and the public spends an entire summer fearing deadly underwater predators. Why do the terrible events we see in the media always seem to lead to more of the same? Loren Coleman, a cultural behaviorist, explores how the media's over-saturated coverage of murders, suicides, and deadly tragedies impacts on our society. The Copycat Effect is the phenomenon through which violent events spawn violence of the same type. Uncovers a tragic flaw of the information age. ISBN: 0743482239

Keywords: psychology, contagion, imitation, media, society, popular culture, criminology, violence, aggression 0743482239


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