Manina Mestas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1731876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manina Mestas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mestas |
| SIGNATURE | MESTAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8813-0018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The ‘Werther Effect’ of Goethe’s Werther: Anecdotal Evidence in Historical News Reports
in 1774. Imitation suicides elicited by media portrayals of suicide have since been termed the "Werther effect." However, evidence for a suicide "epidemic" after the publication of Goethe's Werther is limited to unsystematically documented cases. This study provides an overview of all previously noted copycat suicides, as well as a systematic search for anecdotal evidence of suicides imitating Goethe's Werther in the press. Newspaper databases of…
A Longitudinal Dynamic Perspective on Quality in Journalism: Investigating the Long-Term Macro-Level Media Effect of Suicide Reporting on Suicide Rates Across a Century
Quality of journalism is not a stable phenomenon, yet there is limited longitudinal evidence. We provide a content analysis of news reporting over a whole century within a specific thematic context: suicide reporting. Quality is a key dimension in this context as low-quality reporting is associated with imitative suicides (Werther effect). We took a historical perspective: suicide rates increased in many countries during the 19th century, with su…
Celebrity Suicide and Forced Responsible Reporting in the Nineteenth Century: Crown Prince Rudolf and the Absence of a Werther Effect
Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, died by suicide in 1889. His death is a prime example of a historical celebrity suicide. Although news coverage about celebrity suicide has been shown to be linked to increases in suicides - a phenomenon known as the Werther effect -, censorship and/or journalists' anticipatory obedience back then may have led to a form of "forced responsible reporting" that may have…
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 is a news issue that can be covered from many different angles. When reporting, journalists have to select, accentuate, or exclude particular aspects, which, in turn, may evoke a specific, and possibly constricted, perspective in viewers, a phenomenon termed the news-framing effect. Guided by the reinforcing spiral framework, we conducted a multi-study project that investigated the news-framing effect’s underlying mechanism by studying t…
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis
Although we are very careful when interpreting causal effects with our historical data, we discuss the latter finding by questioning whether a change in military culture, that is, the establishment of better conditions for soldiers in the aftermath of Rudolf's suicide, contributed to decreasing suicide numbers. Although tentative, these findings are also highly relevant for the study of military suicide today
Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) Pandemic and Stock Price Crashes: A Cross-National Correlational Approach
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious threat to public health and the economy. Importantly, there was a stock price crash on Monday, March 9, 2020, followed by a similar crash one week later. Leading global indices substantially dropped. Based on previous research indicating that the news media may elicit effects on stock prices, we hypothesized that the amount of news coverage about COVID-19 within a given country would predic…
Suicide Reporting in the Nineteenth Century: Large-Scale Descriptive Content Analysis of Austrian Newspapers
During the nineteenth century, suicide rates rose substantially in many countries, including the geographic region of the present state of Austria. Sensational news reporting about suicides may have contributed to this rise by eliciting so-called copycat suicides, a phenomenon termed the ‘Werther effect.’ We conducted a large-scale content analysis of nineteenth-century suicide reporting (N = 14,638) to provide a descriptive account of the qualit…
Covid-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries
Covid-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries
Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) Pandemic and Stock Price Crashes: A Cross-National Correlational Approach
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious threat to public health and the economy. Importantly, there was a stock price crash on Monday, March 9, 2020, followed by a similar crash one week later. Leading global indices substantially dropped. Based on previous research indicating that the news media may elicit effects on stock prices, we hypothesized that the amount of news coverage about COVID-19 within a given country would predic…
Suicide Reporting in the Nineteenth Century: Large-Scale Descriptive Content Analysis of Austrian Newspapers
During the nineteenth century, suicide rates rose substantially in many countries, including the geographic region of the present state of Austria. Sensational news reporting about suicides may have contributed to this rise by eliciting so-called copycat suicides, a phenomenon termed the ‘Werther effect.’ We conducted a large-scale content analysis of nineteenth-century suicide reporting (N = 14,638) to provide a descriptive account of the qualit…
Celebrity Suicide and Forced Responsible Reporting in the Nineteenth Century: Crown Prince Rudolf and the Absence of a Werther Effect
Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, died by suicide in 1889. His death is a prime example of a historical celebrity suicide. Although news coverage about celebrity suicide has been shown to be linked to increases in suicides - a phenomenon known as the Werther effect -, censorship and/or journalists' anticipatory obedience back then may have led to a form of "forced responsible reporting" that may have…
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 is a news issue that can be covered from many different angles. When reporting, journalists have to select, accentuate, or exclude particular aspects, which, in turn, may evoke a specific, and possibly constricted, perspective in viewers, a phenomenon termed the news-framing effect. Guided by the reinforcing spiral framework, we conducted a multi-study project that investigated the news-framing effect’s underlying mechanism by studying t…
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis
Although we are very careful when interpreting causal effects with our historical data, we discuss the latter finding by questioning whether a change in military culture, that is, the establishment of better conditions for soldiers in the aftermath of Rudolf's suicide, contributed to decreasing suicide numbers. Although tentative, these findings are also highly relevant for the study of military suicide today
The ‘Werther Effect’ of Goethe’s Werther: Anecdotal Evidence in Historical News Reports
in 1774. Imitation suicides elicited by media portrayals of suicide have since been termed the "Werther effect." However, evidence for a suicide "epidemic" after the publication of Goethe's Werther is limited to unsystematically documented cases. This study provides an overview of all previously noted copycat suicides, as well as a systematic search for anecdotal evidence of suicides imitating Goethe's Werther in the press. Newspaper databases of…
A Longitudinal Dynamic Perspective on Quality in Journalism: Investigating the Long-Term Macro-Level Media Effect of Suicide Reporting on Suicide Rates Across a Century
Quality of journalism is not a stable phenomenon, yet there is limited longitudinal evidence. We provide a content analysis of news reporting over a whole century within a specific thematic context: suicide reporting. Quality is a key dimension in this context as low-quality reporting is associated with imitative suicides (Werther effect). We took a historical perspective: suicide rates increased in many countries during the 19th century, with su…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Medical emergency (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (4 works) · Suicide prevention (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works)