This study investigates hormone response to competition and male coalitions. Coalitionary aggression may represent a fundamental human adaptation (Alexander, 1989; Wrangham, 1999). Males have complex hormone responses to competitive events (Elias 1981; Dabbs & Dabbs, 2000) that may have important effects on psychological and behavioral mechanisms involved in coalitionary competition. Withinand ...

In this paper, we present evidence that underlying attitudes, i.e., preconceived ideas about applications or domains, affect users’ experience of social support by an empathic virtual buddy that provides emotional support and practical advice to victims of cyberbullying. This effect might be a (partial) explanation for the inconclusive and contradictory results reported for the impact of emotio...

Workplace bullying is a severe problem in contemporary working life, affecting up to 15 per cent of employees. Among the detrimental outcomes of bullying, it is even postulated as a major risk factor for exclusion from work. In support of this claim, the current study demonstrates that exposure to bullying behaviour predicts an increase in both levels of job insecurity and intention to leave ov...

Web 2.0 helped user-generated platforms to spread widely. Unfortunately, it also allowed for cyberbullying spread. Cyberbullying has negative effects that could lead cases of depression and low self-esteem. It become crucial develop tools automated detection. The research on developing these been growing over the last decade, especially with recent advances in machine learning natural language ...

Breakfast skipping is a health concern that has well-known negative consequences physically and psychologically. It is therefore important to understand why children skip breakfast. The purpose of this study was to establish whether the experience of bullying and cyberbullying impacts upon breakfast skipping and to further evaluate whether the inability for youths to cope with bullying victimiz...

Inclusion in education of all the children is necessary for the success, equality and peace among individuals and societies. In this context, special attention needs to be paid to the minorities. These groups might encounter additional difficulties which make them more vulnerable to be involved in bullying and cyberbullying. The current study was conducted with the objective of describing the i...

a r t i c l e i n f o Cyberbullying is a growing concern worldwide. Using a sample of 1917 secondary adolescents from seven schools, five psychometric measures (self-efficacy, empathy level, feelings regarding a harmonious school, sense of belonging to the school, and psychosocial wellbeing) and five scales regarding bullying experiences (cyber-and traditional bullying perpetration and victimiz...

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This study examined the prevalence of cyber incivility as perpetrated by supervisors, its impact on individuals and the organization. Specifically, we examine whether working adults in Singapore experience cyber incivility when interacting with their supervisors via emails at the workplace. We also examine the impact of receiving uncivil emails from supervisors on employees’ work and organizati...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association of personality (Five Factor Model), coping and cyber-bullying/victimization experiences among 300 Greek pre-adolescent students attending the upper two primary school grades. Boys reported more frequent involvement in cyber-bullying incidents, while there were no significant gender differences in terms of cyber-victimization. In terms of ...