5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Research center warns of holiday suicide myth
A report from Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues demonstrates that rates of suicide actually decrease during the holidays.
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Study: 2017 rise in teen suicide rates due to seasonal shifts, not ‘13 Reasons Why’
A paper by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center found a seasonal pattern to teen suicide rates that seems to coincide with the school year, declining in the summer months.
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Holiday suicide myth debunked
Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the commonly shared link between Christmastime and suicides is a false and dangerous myth.
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Flunking social studies is how America got the Big Lie and QAnon. Don’t make it worse
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that reduced time in the classroom for teaching civics will come back to haunt America’s future politics.
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Myth that suicides peak during the holidays could cause harm
A study by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues found that 56% of stories published last year perpetuated the false connection between the holidays and suicide.
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Penn study debunks myth about increased suicide during holidays
Dan Romer discusses the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s recent study noting the frequency of false reports that suicides increase around the holidays.
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Building and sustaining public trust in science
For “Washington Post Live,” Francis Collins quotes Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center as saying that all of the most significant COVID misinformation campaigns were predictable and could have been “pre-bunked.”
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Suicide doesn’t increase during the holidays, but the media perpetuates that myth, new Penn study finds
An analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than half of media references to the “holiday-suicide myth” last year failed to debunk it, with quotes from Dan Romer.
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How Twitter became one of the world’s preferred platforms for sharing ideas
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that Twitter has issues that need to be fixed, but that the tool has more hope and potential than negativity.
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Polio was once the most feared disease in the U.S. A new Annenberg poll shows most Americans know little about the virus, despite recent N.Y. outbreak
A survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that most people are unfamiliar with polio and how it’s spread, with a quote from Kathleen Hall Jamieson.