Foxconn announced Friday that it would increase wages by 20 percent to boost morale and forestall the copycat effect that can follow well-publicized suicides.

富士康周五声明，将提薪20%以提升士气，以及防止因媒体过度关注而引起自杀模仿效应。

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He also found a dose-response effect: the more coverage of a suicide, the greater the number of copycat deaths. (See pictures of an exhibit of Columbine evidence.)

他还发现一种行为影响的效应：对某一谋杀案越多的报道就有越多人模仿该案件(看到图片后的模仿是有力的证据)。

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It's also called the contagion effect and copycat suicide: one person does it, and that lowers the threshold, making it easier and more permissible for the next.

这种效应同样也被称作跟风效应与模仿式自杀：只要有一个人开头，那么接下来的人就很容易跟风。

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Loren Coleman's 2004 book "The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines" shows that the copycat effect is as old as the media itself.

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