Assoc.-Prof. PD Mag. Dr. Benedikt Till
Center for Public Health (Department of Social and Preventive Medicine)
Position: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000000220995469
T +43 1 40160 34615
benedikt.till@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Health Communication; Mass Media; Mental Health; Public Health; Suicide
Research group(s)
- Unit Suicide Research & Mental Health Promotion
Head: Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Research Area: epidemiology, causes and influencing factors as well as the prevention of suicidal behaviour and mental illness
Members: - Wiener Werkstätte for Suicide Research
Members:
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
- Mediale Repräsentationen des Suizids und ihre Wirkungen (2006)
Source of Funding: OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences), DOC-team
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- 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: http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/JCP.17m11975.
- Till, B. et al., 2017. Beneficial and harmful effects of educative suicide prevention websites: randomised controlled trial exploring Papageno v. Werther effects. British Journal of Psychiatry, 211(02), pp.109-115. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.115.177394.
- Till, B. et al., 2015. Determining the effects of films with suicidal content: A laboratory experiment. British Journal of Psychiatry, 207(01), pp.72-78. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152827.
- Till, B. & Niederkrotenthaler, T., 2014. Surfing for Suicide Methods and Help. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 75(08), pp.886-892. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/JCP.13m08861.
- Till, B. et al., 2010. Suicide in Films: The Impact of Suicide Portrayals on Nonsuicidal Viewers� Well-Being and the Effectiveness of Censorship. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 40(4), pp.319-327. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2010.40.4.319.