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Professor of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University.
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Sheffield: Portraits explores impact of bullying on adult life • Dec. 9, 2024, 11:16 PM ET (BBC)

bullying, intentional harm-doing or harassment that is directed toward vulnerable targets and typically repeated. Bullying encompasses a wide range of malicious aggressive behaviours, including physical violence, verbal mockery, threats, ostracism, and rumours spread either orally or by other means of communication, such as the Internet. One influential definition proposed by Norwegian researcher and psychologist Dan Olweus says: Given the damage a single incident can cause, however, some scholars question whether the behaviour must be repeated in order to qualify as bullying. Additionally, not all people engaged in this interaction can be categorized as pure bullies or pure victims; research has ...(100 of 1938 words)

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