Post: #1

http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/psychologi...ufern.html

Quote:Most gunman are depressed and socially isolated. US researchers have now discovered, however, that there is a specific point that motivated these people to become perpetrators.

Jennifer Johnston from the Western New Mexico University had together with her colleague Andrew Joy analyzed all the data they had found about shootings in the US: studies, data from the FBI and other institutions, also reports in newspapers, radio and television.

The profile of the perpetrators was homogeneous striking. Almost all gunman were 20-25 years old, white, and felt themselves to be victims, wronged and chance. To their isolation and the deep depression came a pathological narcissism, a sense of entitlement to deserve better - and the desire to attract the attention of other unconditional on itself.

This last pattern is the one who leads to the fact that shootings can act highly contagious - and whenever the media report in detail about them. "Unfortunately, which most common pattern is common when gunmen longing for fame," says Johnston. Since the 90-years since the media day and night report and the Internet got upturn, of relationship between reporting and infectious rampage in the data is to be recognized. The more media had reported a case, the more accumulated more shootings. Whenever the offender got a lot of space and attention, both in the text and in the picture, the number of shootings increased.

Before 2000, there were in the United States each year about three school shootings or in public. Since then the number has increased steadily and now lies in a rampage every 12.5 days at the general public and about a killing spree every 32 days for schools.

"When the mass media and social media could agree not to distribute the names, photos, detailed stories or statements of the perpetrators or to share, then the number of shootings could reduce dramatically," says Johnston. At least one third would be to avoid that.

This decline was comparable to the in suicides. Since it was discovered in 1997 that reporting on suicides increased their number, the coverage fell in the wake of cautious - and the number of suicides fell again. "The media have made it before, to make a difference," says Johnston. "And they can do it again. It's time. It's enough."

I did post something similar in the Knife attack in London topic:
/thread-57438...pid1366165

(08-04-2016 04:10 AM)Parzival Wrote:  Whats an issue to and what you often don't read are free riders. After the Munich attacks the Police got plenty of calls from people that say there is a bomb or there is a shooter. Its a common thing after such an event for the police. Even some take inspiration and take action. In this case it can be a Muslim but with all the Muslim attacks there is something else. A climate of destruction lays out there. This brings the rats out. The lunatics, the crazy ones that jump on the train because they feel its their moment. The pressure of order is gone, things seem to fall apart. Those that did hide see their moment now.

I guess it's the desire for the 15 minutes of fame in a narcissistic society.

Post: #2

Yeah it's called the "Werther Effekt" in social psychology, but it is contested by the "Papageno Effekt" which states that reports about suicides have the potential to discourage suicides (when they manage to display them as bleak and not providing a solution)

My guess is both (Werther Effekt 1 concerning suicide and 2 concerning shooting rampages) are very minuscule effects that are propped up so that:

• in the case of WE 1, male suffering can be swept under the rug - predominantly male suicides detract from the feminist oppression narrative
• in the case of WE 2, this effect will be set up now so that politicians & the press have an excuse to underreport muslim terror