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MURFREESBORO — Jackie Gilbert wanted the Principles of Management class she taught this past spring to have a lasting impact. For the professor of management in MTSU’s College of Business, that meant more than providing a basis for what students would take into professional careers and personal lives, but also offer a resource for other [...]
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Mixing the teenage mind, text messaging, and social media can be a recipe for dangerous miscues in the communication age, experts say. A study released this month and co-written by a Florida Atlantic University professor casts new light on the dangers of cyber bullying among teenagers—and how a simple text message or Facebook post taken [...]
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Schoolyard bullies are likely to grow up to be adults who abuse their wives and girlfriends, according to a new study. The study, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, surveyed more than 1,400 men between that ages of 18 and 35 at an urban community center in Boston. It found that men who recalled [...]
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Nine in ten Brits don’t trust the internet, according to findings from BullGuard. 2,000 people were polled in the study, which also found that three in ten have had a bad experience while surfing the net, one in six have been hacked, and one in twenty have been a victim of ID fraud or cyber-bullying. [...]
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You may think that bullying is just something that happens on the school playground, with kids stealing lunch money, or teasing other kids, but in fact a new survey at careerbuilder.com of over 5000 workers has found that up to 27% of people have experienced some form of bulling in the workplace. MORE >>>
Online social networking includes much more than Facebook and Twitter. It is any online use of technology to connect people, enable them to collaborate with each other, and form virtual communities, says the Young Adult Library Services Association. Social networking sites may allow visitors to send e-mails, post comments, build web content, and/ or take [...]
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(NOTE: Some studies have already identified a likely connection between bullying and secretion of cortisol among students in K-12 schools. The school research suggests that even bystanders experience cortisol secretion — which makes them collateral victims. This is the first study I’ve seen that explores such a connection in the context of workplace bullying. – [...]
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The survey ‘Research Risks of Electronic Communication 2′ follows survey researches which have beenp erformed by the team of the Centre for the Prevention of risky virtual communication at the Facult yof Education, Palacký University Olomouc since 2008. The current survey research was conductedwithin a project E-Bezpečí – Risks of Electronic Communication for Students and [...]
A new study from the Family Acceptance Project published in the Journal of School Health—the journal of the American School Health Association—details the high rates of bullying that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students experience in middle school and high school alongside bullying’s long-term effects extending well into young adulthood. This study, the first of [...]
Social bias comes in many different forms, but its impacts are predictable. Juvenile weight bias refers to negative attitudes toward the overweight child, who is often the subject of ridicule, aggression and isolation. It is well known that children can be cruel, something that many of us have experienced at some point. But overweight children [...]
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