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We have a new paper of the month! Sangsoo Shin, Steven Stack, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, and Mark Sinyor assessed the impact of the widely reported incident of musician Jon Bon Jovi intervening to stop a woman’s suicide attempt in Tennessee. The authors found a reduction in suicide mortality among Tennessean males after media coverage of this incident.

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Shin, S., Stack, S., Niederkrotenthaler, T., & Sinyor, M. (2026). Suicide rates in the USA following the Jon Bon Jovi Papageno media event. The British Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2026.10668.