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Florian Arendt, Viktoriia Hromova, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Isabelle Wiedemann, and Benedikt Till assessed the impact of a brief video clip from the Netflix series BoJack Horseman depicting either successful coping with a suicidal crisis or a comparable clip without coping. The authors found a reduction in suicidal thoughts after watching oping-focused animated content compared to the control group.

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Arendt, F., Hromova, V., Niederkrotenthaler, T., Wiedemann, I., & Till, B. (2026). Animated media content and the Papageno effect: Experimental evidence for the suicide-preventive potential of coping-oriented narratives in the series BoJack Horseman. Social Science & Medicine, 406, 119678. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119678.