Dylan Yount

Blogs
January 24, 2013
Public Influence: How Deindividuation Theory Helps Explain Suicide Baiting
The 2012 edition of the Text Book "Social Psychology Matters" opens with a chapter about "Crowds." The introduction of that chapter begins by telling the story of Dylan Yount and the "crowd of onlookers gathered at the foot of his building" who watched him jump of a third story ledge. As we wrote i ... More >>
News
January 16, 2013
SF Weekly Letters
Blogs
January 4, 2013
Public Influence: How Police Officers Have Prevented "Jump!" Chants
California Penal Code Section 401 states, "Every person who deliberately aids, or advises, or encourages another to commit suicide, is guilty of a felony." In this week's feature story, Public Influence, multiple people violated this law. As Dylan Yount stood on the ledge 100 feet up, spectators in ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2013
Public Influence: "We're Trained Not to Believe We Would Kill Ourselves."
There are around 100 suicides in San Francisco every year, according to Eve Meyer, executive director of San Francisco Suicide Prevention. Some of those people may not show a lot of overt warning signs, as was the case with Dylan Yount, the 32-year-old who jumped off the Forever 21 building in Febru ... More >>
News
January 2, 2013
Public Influence: The Immortalization of an Anonymous Death
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Cops Accused of Joining Mobs Telling Man to Jump From Union Square Building; Mother Sues SFPD
Group thinkIt's been a bad two weeks for the San Francisco Police Department. First the Public Defender releases footage of an alleged illegal drug bust; then the FBI launches and investigation. Now a San Francisco mother is suing the SFPD, claiming officers joined in the chants of "bloodth ... More >>