Werther effect

English

Etymology

In reference to The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Noun

Werther effect (plural Werther effects)

  1. The situation where a widely publicized suicide leads to a number of copycat suicides.

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.