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Keywords

Health Communication; Mass Media; Mental Health; Public Health; Suicide

Research group(s)

• Wiener Werkstätte for Suicide Research
  Members:
  Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
  Benedikt Till
• Public Mental Health Research Unit
  Head: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
  Members:
  Benedikt Till

Research interests

I work in the field of media psychology, health communication, mental health promotion, and suicide research. My research focus lies on the roles of the mass media in suicide and suicide prevention (e.g., Werther effect, Papageno effect).

Grants

• Media Reports on Terrorism and their Impact on Audiences (2023)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Principal Investigator Projects
  Principal Investigator
• Suicide Prevention Websites and their Impact on Users (2023)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Principal Investigator Projects
  Principal Investigator
• The impact of suicide portrayals in short films on viewers (2023)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Principal Investigator Projects
  Principal Investigator
• Mediale Repräsentationen des Suizids und ihre Wirkungen (2006)
  Source of Funding: OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences), DOC-team
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Till, B. et al. (2020) ‘Content analysis of suicide-related online portrayals: changes in contents retrieved with search engines in the United States and Austria from 2013 to 2018’, Journal of Affective Disorders, 271, pp. 300–309. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.063.
2. Till, B. et al. (2018) ‘Effect of Educative Suicide Prevention News Articles Featuring Experts With vs Without Personal Experience of Suicidal Ideation’, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.17m11975.
3. Till, B. et al. (2017) ‘Beneficial and harmful effects of educative suicide prevention websites: randomised controlled trial exploring Papagenov. Werther effects’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 211(2), pp. 109–115. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.115.177394.
4. Till, B. et al. (2015) ‘Determining the effects of films with suicidal content: A laboratory experiment’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 207(1), pp. 72–78. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152827.
5. Till, B. et al. (2023) ‘The Role of the Narrative in Educative Suicide Awareness Materials: A Randomized Controlled Trial’, Health Communication, 39(2), pp. 403–416. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2167580.