Papageno effect

noun

The effect of mass media deterring people from suicide by promoting alternatives.

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Meanings

nounPapageno effect (plural Papageno effects)

plural Papageno effects

  1. The effect of mass media deterring people from suicide by promoting alternatives.

Origin

Named after a lovelorn character, Papageno, from the 18th-century opera The Magic Flute, who contemplates suicide until other characters suggest alternative resolutions.

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Papageno effect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Papageno%20effect

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