Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Bullying: New Research

New research has found that when they "...examine aggression from a social network


perspective, arguing that social network centrality, our primary measure of peer status,

increases the capacity for aggression and that competition to gain or maintain status motivates its use" (Faris and Felmlee, 2011, p. 48). Here is the article from the New York Times that discusses this research. What do you think?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/web-of-popularity-weaved-by-bullying/?scp=2&sq=bullying&st=cse

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