Death studies
Popular music and the Papageno effect: Experimental evidence for the beneficial impact of listening to songs with suicide-preventive messages.
Florian Arendt, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Isabelle Wiedemann, Benedikt Till
Published: 202510.1080/07481187.2025.2585933
Abstract
Media portrayals of overcoming suicidal crises can beneficially contribute to suicide prevention, a phenomenon termed the Papageno effect. The present study (N = 322) is the first to utilize an experimental design to investigate the possible suicide-…
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