When Film Legend Marilyn Monroe Committed Suicide, Demographers Noted a Sharp

question 59

Multiple Choice

When film legend Marilyn Monroe committed suicide, demographers noted a sharp increase in suicide rates in the following month. Which theory would best explain the increase in rates?

• A) contagion
• B) psychological
• C) physiological
• D) selection
• E) ecological

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Religious Reformation

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