According to investigators, it would appear that cyberbullying is a phenomenon that it taken on new dimensions lately, and which causes severe negative consequences in its victims. Before the advent of the Internet, and before kids had nearly unrestricted access to mobile phones and smartphones, bullying was usually ... |
21 September 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Being subjected to bullying has a negative effect on a child's personality, but also on their grades, a new study from experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) shows.The conclusions apply especially to children who are bullied constantly, and not only during school.Kids nowadays have nearly ... |
20 August 2010
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In a new study, investigators have determined that bullies tend to prefer picking on overweight and obese children, rather than more fit ones. The team behind the research determined that this tendency was not affected by other factors, including social skills, academic achievements, socioeconomic status, gender or r... |
3 May 2010
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Investigators have recently determined in a new study that children who tend to bully others at school select their “victims” from a group of unpopular children. This is done so that the prospective victim would have no one to jump to their aid, since no one wants to be friends with them. This approach is... |
25 March 2010
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Scientists have determined that children who bully their schoolmates also tend to abuse their siblings at home. The conclusion belongs to a new study, which sought to investigate the links that appeared between bullying in school and at home. The investigation also aimed at discovering causal links that binded the tw... |
30 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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The issue of cyber bullying has been around ever since the earliest days of the Internet, but it got exponentially more visible as the cases of such acts rose in numbers by the same ratio. Text messages, offensive emails and videos being posted on YouTube, everything was turned into a means of threatening and oppress... |
19 March 2008
09:28 GMT |
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We're advancing more and more and new technologies pop up everyday. You can never know what scientists will think of next - a few years ago, I carried a phone the size of a brick and now - iPhones have appeared, small and with tones of features. Who would have thought? And of course, as the world advances, bulli... |
21 September 2007
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