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Citation

Phillips DP. Am. J. Sociol. 1979; 84(5): 1150-1174.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/226904

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Modern sociology has paid too little attention to the concepts of imitation and suggestion. This report presents new findings indicating that these concepts have a powerful impact on social behavior. Presents evidence that automobile fatalities increase several days after a publicized suicide and relates these and related findings to sociological theory.

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