PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Doreen Kimura, Ethnocentrism, Edward B. Titchener

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

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Important to raise attention towards this because many cases go unreported and the bullying and violence rates continue to go up with younger children and in particular females as well. Surveys showed that the reason for researchers nowadays to be more interested in understanding this is because there is a link between traditional bullying and electronic bullying and that the evidence in canada is extremely high. Important contributors for this research effort include: marlene moretti of simon fraser. University, tracy vaillancourt of mcmaster university, debra pepler of york university and wendy craig of queen"s university. Students and researchers are drawn to psychology because it has much to offer when it comes to analysis and possible preventions of social problems. Their research offer possible explanations for people"s behaviour and suggestions for the future for prevention. They also predict the occurrence of such behaviour. Psychology is not just about abnormal and psychological disorders.