Bullying v. Teasing One basic distinction often made in the literature on peer-on-peer aggression is between bullying and teasing. Bullying is an overt act of aggression, whose intention is to harm ...

In the first post of this four-part series, I delved into the internal psychology of a typical childhood bully. But bullies, like other human beings, are social creatures – they don’t act in isolation ...

What makes a bully? An interesting new study says it's not the most popular kids who pick on others -- it's the almost most-popular kids who are bullies. The top 2 percent of a high school's social ...

Conventional wisdom says that it's the most troubled kids that resort to bullying. Not so, say two University of California at Davis sociologists in this month's issue of the American Sociological ...