Bullying is something we do when we scared. Then if there is someone in our environment who uses bullying and gains something by doing it, we will (unconsciously) see that behavior as successful and copy it.
High heritability of bullying, plus negligible influence of shared family environment (including parental behavior), suggests that the 'cycle of violence' theory of bullying is wrong.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1254408485749559299 …
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That's exactly the hypothesis that is empirically refuted by this research.
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blocked unfortunately but you bet I do! Although "grounded in genes" is vague. High heritability doesn't imply a lack of malleability or a lack of environmental contribution to a trait. It's pretty much only useful in the context of highly controlled plant and animal breeding
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@DegenRolf I'm not sure what the "anti-bullying program" was, but in my school, it was a "0 tolerance policy for physical violence". So, if you fought back you got suspended, and if you didn't and ratted, the bully would lie and say "He hit me too", and you got suspended. -
Bullies didn't care about their academic record, and victims did, so the school essentially forced all of the victims to lie about the behavior. They called it "anti-bullying", but it was an institutional reinforcement. Felt like a hell specifically designed to torture nerds.
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Odoyle Rules!
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How do you define bullying? Is this synonymous to domestic violence or different?
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Surely, regardless of genetic predisposition, an individual raised in an abusive family would have worse outcomes than the same genetically predisposed individual raised in a healthy family?
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