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Recent research has considered the role of similarity, and more specifically, shared group membership, in encouraging bystander intervention. In one experiment (2005), researchers found that bystanders were more likely to help an injured person if that person was wearing a football jersey of a team the bystander liked as opposed to a team the ...
Myers, C-A. & Cowie, H. (2013) An investigation into the roles of victim, bully and bystanders in role-play incidents of cyberbullying amongst university students in England, Pastoral Care in Education, 31(3); 251-267. Cowie, H. (2013) Cyberbullying and its impact on young people’s emotional health and well-being, The Psychiatrist, 37: 167-170.
Bystanders play an important role in responding to bullying, as doing nothing can encourage it to continue, while small steps that oppose the behaviour can reduce it. [ 146 ] Authority figures can play an important role, such as parents or teachers in child or adolescent situations, or supervisors, human-resources staff or parent-bodies in ...
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander (full title: The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School—How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence) is a 2003 nonfiction book by Barbara Coloroso. [1]
A bystander is a person who observes a prejudiced attack towards another person and chooses to ignore it. [57] Although early research has mostly focused on victims and bullies, currently more and more attention has been given to the roles of other students, or bystanders: bully-reinforcer's and assistants, victim-defenders, and outsiders. [51]
Experts say the reaction reflects the new role that bystanders play in the age of smartphones. “It’s become sort of a social norm," said Karen North, a digital social media professor at the ...
Katz advocates the bystander approach to gender violence and bullying prevention. [26] Instead of focusing on women as victims and men as perpetrators of harassment, abuse or violence, the bystander approach concentrates on the role of peers in schools, groups, teams, workplaces and other social units. [27] [28]
Also playing a role: Societal beliefs about who is most worthy of assistance Daniels says that “the kinds of ways that we think about getting help in this society are really geared toward white ...