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manipulate social relationships to harm other children (Archer & Coyne, 2005; Bjorkqvist,<br />
Lagerspetz, & Kaukiainen, 1992; Crick, 1995; Galen & Underwood, 1997).<br />
Relational humiliation uses relationships within tight social networks to hurt others. This<br />
results in lowering the victim’s status within the peer group. Examples include making up<br />
unflattering stories about the victim, joking at the victim’s expense, spreading rumors and<br />
gossiping about the victim, sending anonymous notes to the victim that convey a hurtful<br />
message, alienating and ostracizing the victim, seeking revenge against the victim in play, not<br />
acknowledging knowing a victim, and pretending to be another peer’s friend (Crick et al., 2001a;<br />
Ludwig, 2003; Rigby, 2002a, 2002b). Social exclusion includes deliberately forming coalitions<br />
against the victim and persuading others to exclude the victim from social interactions (Rigby,<br />
2002). Relational bullying may be facilitated and intensified by the use <strong>of</strong> current technology<br />
that may conceal the bully’s identity or expand the social audience (Gradinger, Strohmeier, &<br />
Spiel, 2009; Mishna, Sainia, & Solomona, 2009). Examples <strong>of</strong> technology that is used in<br />
relational bullying include Internet postings, electronic mail, cellular phone calls, and text<br />
messaging (Foundation, 2004b; Tokunaga, <strong>2010</strong>). <strong>The</strong>re is usually a physical distance between<br />
the bully and victim in instances <strong>of</strong> electronic or “cyber” bullying. <strong>The</strong>refore, the emotional<br />
impact <strong>of</strong> the bullying on the victim is not as obvious to the bully and, thus, makes it easier for<br />
the bully to be callous toward the victim’s feelings or emotions (Mishna et al., 2009).<br />
Other types <strong>of</strong> bullying include sexual and racial harassment (Slavens, 2004). Sexual<br />
harassment involves persistent unwanted attention, innuendo, and undesirable name-calling or<br />
labeling <strong>of</strong> a victim by a bully. Racial harassment includes persistent unwanted attention toward<br />
a victim coupled with ethnic slurs and <strong>of</strong>fensive name-calling. Because <strong>of</strong> their sensitive and<br />
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