Editors of the Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Anita L. Vangelisti and Daniel Perlman, discuss the effects of bullying in intimate relationships for Anti-Bullying week.
Read MoreBullying, or the ongoing and frequent misuse of power in a peer relationship, often in school, occurs throughout the world. Population base-rates are estimated to vary, averaging about 1/3 of pupils worldwide. Bullying can be thought of as being physical, psychological (including cyberbullying) or sexual, with overlap among the categories. Both boys and girls experience bullying […]
Read MoreIn 1988, during a family holiday in Norway, I met with Dan Olweus, a professor of psychology considered the founding father of school bullying research. He told me about the recent Norwegian National Campaign against bullying in schools, which had had some considerable success. Inspired by this, I used his survey questionnaire in England, where […]
Read MoreIn the fifth of our cyberpsychology roundtable discussions, the authors decide on what they feel is the singular most important issue online.
Read MoreParticipants: Patricia Wallace, the author of The Psychology of The Internet John Suler, the author of The Psychology of the Digital Age Kent Norman, the author of Cyberpsychology Raphael Cohen-Almagor, the author of Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side The rise of the digital age has posed many new challenges to parents as their children […]
Read MoreFour Cambridge authors continue their roundtable discussion about cyber psychology by addressing what happens when cyber bullies and online aggressors misuse the powerful tools the web provides.
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