Anger is an emotional response to a real or imagined threat or provocation. Anger can range in intensity from mild irritation to extreme rage. We all become angry, and most of us don’t like it. The question is how to get rid of anger, or at least reduce it. That is the topic of this article.
In this blog post, I discuss recent research suggesting that being the victim of bullying can have a long-lasting impact on mental and physical health. But there’s a ray of hope in this literature as well: the lasting impact may depend on the ways that victims cope with being bullied. In November of...
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One classic study showed that when children intervene in bullying, it stopped within 10 seconds in 57% of episodes. This clearly speaks to the vital role bystanders play in helping victims of bullying. Nevertheless, only in 15% of the instances, children intervene. Why do some children intervene and...
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In the present article it is argued that aggression or more specifically, taking revenge has contrary to previous research findings not only negative (i.e., aggression increasing) but also positive (i.e., aggression reducing) consequences. Whereas aggressive thoughts and aggressive behavior might be
Throughout the years in which aggression in schools has been researched, one interesting finding has been replicated many times over. That is, that when you ask children ‘what do you think of bullying?', they will reply that it is wrong (e.g., Brown, Birch, & Kancheria, 2005). Yet, statistics on...
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Although it is counterintuitive, violence in America today is most likely to occur within the home (Rennison, 2003). Might the origin of violence be within the home as well, specifically the use of physical punishment on children? Public opinion condoning physical punishment in America has been...
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