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Study highlights bullying in schools. Strikingly, this Australian study found that boys (around the age of fifteen) engage in slightly more "covert bullying" - malicious gossip, social exclusion, etc - than girls. The researcher calls this "surprising". It's a significant challenge to the thinking (which I share) that girls resort to this sort of social aggression because we're taught to swallow our anger. (Has the study uncovered previously undetected bullying, or is this a change brought on by the advent of cyberbullying?)