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#637 - Tony Volk - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Bullying

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The Cost Benefit Behavior of Bullying

The best defense against bullying is retaliation, fighting back. We know that the very worst thing for escalating bullying is fighting back. The study in Norway shows that if everybody clamps down, you can reduce bullying. But if you only focus on the negatives, I joke with the school board and my colleagues that I used to be invited to lots of schools to talk about bullying. Now that my message is, bullying will get you sex, power, popularity and resources. And we have a hard time catching you and prosecuting you. So please don't do it.

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