cluster suicide

a statistically high occurrence of suicides within a circumscribed geographic area, social group, or time period. Cluster suicides have been identified involving adolescents, factory workers, and dispersed individuals who imitated the suicide of an admired role model as described by the media (see Werther syndrome). Compare mass suicide.

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January 31st 2025

lure

n. an incorrect item presented among correct items in testing memory, to serve as a distractor.