1. What’s new in Bullying Prevention? Presented by Chuck Saufler 8/16/2010

2. Bullying (peer abusive) Behavior… Is learned behavior. Is not pre-wired, harmless, inevitable. Will spread if ignored, supported, or promoted. Involves everyone in the system. Can be controlled or prevented.

3. What else is “bullying”? Bullying is similar to sexual harassment, partner abuse and child abuse: Each involves an imbalance of power. The perpetrator blames the victim. The target is unable to stop the abuse themselves. If not stopped targets begin to blame themselves for the abuse.

4. New Research March 2010 The Youth Voice Project

5. From: The Youth Voice Project 2010 Stan Davis and Charisse Nixon, PhD.

6. From: The Youth Voice Project 2010 Stan Davis and Charisse Nixon, PhD.

7. From: The Youth Voice Project 2010 Stan Davis and Charisse Nixon, PhD.

11. Activating Bystanders: Precursors to Action 1.Notice that someone is in distress 2.Decide if the victim deserves your help 3.Decide whether you have a responsibility to help. 4.Choose what actions to take to help. 5.Understand how to implement the choice safely. Darley and Latane, 1968

12. The Root of the Problem is Bias Nobody is born biased. Bias is learned attitudes and beliefs Attitude drives behavior Bias is learned from models - cultural, print, video, audio, behavioral

13. What do children learn from models? Cognitive scripts - rehearsed and reinforced or modified by the results Successful scripts are stored in memory and used as guides for behavior and social problem solving.

14. What do children learn from models? Children not only adopt specific behaviors but also tend to adopt evaluative standards and attitudes employed by the models in their life. The child will pattern their thoughts, feelings and actions after a model.This is how bias is taught.

16. Violent Media Effects Aggression effect - meanness, violence Victim effect - “Mean world syndrome” Bystander effect - callousness, insensitivity Appetite effect - hunger for more, addiction Bias effect - black and white thinking “Shallow thinking” effect

17. Cognitive Models from Mainstream Media Us and them thinking - demonizing the “other” side Revenge as legitimatizing violence Unity at the cost of diversity Reinforcing stereotypes and bias Sarcasm and abusive language models Inappropriate relational models

18. How do these ideas affect developing brains and behavior?