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#637 - Tony Volk - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Bullying

Modern Wisdom

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The Evolution of Bullying

Bullying is a way of signaling how dangerous you are to compete with. It's unusual in dominant hierarchies for number two to pick on number 17 in the hierarchy. Number 17 doesn't have things that they need socially. But what number 2 is doing is showing number one and number three, what they're capable of doing. And they're picking a target that's a reasonable threat.

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