Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

by Harris, Monica J.

• ISBN13: 9780826103789
• ISBN10: 0826103782
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

"Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization" is the only book to cover bullying, teasing, and victimization in child, adolescent, and adult populations. With contributions from leading researchers on the topics of peer victimization, teasing, and interpersonal rejection, this unique text presents emerging theoretical perspectives, including social cognition, social ecology, genetics and genetic-environment interactions, and social cognitive neuroscience. This book provides comprehensive coverage on bullying, offering in-depth analyses on traditional aggression and victimization (physical bullying) as well as social rejection (emotional bullying). The contributors also examine both the perpetrator and victim sides of the peer victimization experience, as well as the broader social context involved in the victimization process. Peer and family relationships, relational aggression, and cyber-bullying are just a few of the important topics discussed.

Author Biography

The contributors offer in-depth analyses on traditional aggression and victimization (physical bullying) as well as social rejection (emotional bullying). Peer and family relationships, relational aggression, and cyber-bullying are just a few of the important topics discussed

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Taking Bullying and Rejection (Inter) Personally: Benefits of a Social Psychological Approach to Peer Victimization	p. 3
Theoretical Perspectives	p. 25
A Child and Environment Framework for Studying Risk for Peer Victimization	p. 27
Exploring the Experience of Social Rejection in Adults and Adolescents: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective	p. 53
Why's Everybody Always Picking on Me? Social Cognition, Emotion Regulation, and Chronic Peer Victimization in Children	p. 79
Aggression and Victimization	p. 101
The Importance of Personality and Effortful Control Processes in Victimization	p. 103
A Person X Situation Approach to Understanding Aggressive Behavior and Underlying Aggressogenic Thought	p. 125
Contributions of Three Social Theories to Understanding Bullying Perpetration and Victimization Among School-Aged Youth	p. 151
Sex Differences in Aggression From an Adaptive Perspective	p. 171
Rejection and Relational Aggression	p. 199
The Pain of Exclusion: Using Insights From Neuroscience to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion	p. 201
Looking Before Leaping: The Role of Social Expectancies in Attachment Regulation Following Interpersonal Rejection	p. 225
Alone and Aggressive: Social Exclusion Impairs Self-Control and Empathy and Increases Hostile Cognition and Aggression	p. 251
Is Ostracism Worse Than Bullying?	p. 279
Victimization and the Larger Peer Context	p. 297
Bullying as a Means to Foster Compliance	p. 299
Social Networks and Peer Victimization: The Contexts of Children's Victimization by Peers	p. 319
Using Social Network Analysis as a Lens to Examine Socially Isolated Youth	p. 345
Index	p. 365
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