Suicide and the Moralistic Fallacy: Comment on Joiner, Hom, Hagan, and Silva (2016)

Gorelik, Gregory; Shackelford, Todd K.

doi:10.1007/s40806-017-0087-7

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“…However, the direct channel, which pertains to psychological disorders with typical symptoms of depression, psychopathy, and aggressiveness, is more challenging to measure due to the lack of available data at the country level for the sample countries. While it is not always the case that suicides are the result of psychological disorders (51,52), a significant proportion of suicides are indeed closely linked to such conditions (53). Therefore, I use suicide mortality rates as a rough indicator of the nationwide prevalence of psychological disorders to examine the direct effects of economic uncertainty on health.…”

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Economic uncertainty and population health: insights from emerging markets and developing countries

Liu

2023

Front. Public Health

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This study employs a Bayesian panel vector autoregressive model to examine the impact of economic uncertainty on public health, using an annual, country-level panel dataset of 103 emerging markets and developing countries spanning the years 1995 through 2019. The results from the full sample suggest that the immediate effects of heightened economic uncertainty on health are marginal, yet it may engender prolonged life expectancy and lowered mortality rates. The analysis unveils considerable heterogeneities among various country classifications. The health-enhancing effects of economic uncertainty are predominantly discernible in emerging markets, low-income and upper-middle-income countries. Additionally, a diminution in suicide rates, attributed to escalated economic uncertainty, is uniquely detected in upper-middle-income countries. Furthermore, economic growth and healthcare expenditure emerge as paramount determinants in bolstering overall population health, particularly in lower-middle-income countries. The detrimental effect of environmental pollution on health is more pronounced in emerging markets and middle-income nations. Excluding high-income countries, it is essential to emphasize the beneficial health outcomes resulting from financial development and globalization, as well as the deleterious effects of environmental pollution. Lastly, several policy implications aligned with the findings are outlined, providing a roadmap for decision-makers in these diverse economies to promote better health outcomes.

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Economic uncertainty and population health: insights from emerging markets and developing countries

Liu

2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Notably, a “sociobiological extension” of IPTS (Joiner et al, 2017) is said to serve “as a foundation for observing human suicidality through an evolutionary lens” (Chiurliza et al, 2017, p. 87). With few exceptions (e.g., Gorelik & Shackelford, 2017), these proposals have gone unexamined.…”

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Ethological Problems with the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

Soper

2022

Omega (Westport)

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Joiner and colleagues’ Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS), a prominent “desire-capability” model of suicide—based on the common-sense idea that people take their own lives because they want to, and can—is critiqued from a biological perspective. Tinbergen’s ethological “four questions” guide the analysis: evolution, survival value, ontogeny, and proximate causation, each addressing a different aspect of biological understanding. Problems for ITS emerge with all four. As a parsimonious solution, the desire-capability hypothesis is reconceived as an ultimate, instead of proximate, mode of explanation. By this light, desire and capability for suicide combined in our species’ ancestral past, thus making suicide a recurrent survival threat, and driving the evolution of special-purpose defensive adaptations. This stance tallies with the pain-brain theory of the evolution of suicide, and with Joiner and colleagues’ own investigation into organismic anti-suicide defenses, which appears to conflict conceptually with IPTS. These defenses’ evolved algorithm may make suicide an intrinsically aleatory phenomenon, opaque to usefully accurate prediction. Positive implications for prevention and research are proposed.

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Beyond the Search for Suigiston: How Evolution Offers Oxygen for Suicidology

Soper

2019

Evolutionary Psychology

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Suicide and the Moralistic Fallacy: Comment on Joiner, Hom, Hagan, and Silva (2016)

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Economic uncertainty and population health: insights from emerging markets and developing countries

Economic uncertainty and population health: insights from emerging markets and developing countries

Ethological Problems with the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

Beyond the Search for Suigiston: How Evolution Offers Oxygen for Suicidology

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