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Relational Aggression - Behavior that harms someone by damaging or manipulating their relationships with other people.

Aggressor - The person who chooses to hurt or damage a relationship.

Blog - A shared on-line journal where you can post diary entries about personal experiences and hobbies.

Bullying - Negative actions carried out by physical contact, words, making faces, gestures, rumors and intentional exclusion.

Cyber bullying - Sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using your cell phone or instant messenger.

Cyber stalking - Constant Internet harassment that is intimidating or involves threats of harm.

Exclusion - Leaving out a classmate or friend just because they are not cool.

Flaming - Sending angry, rude, vulgar messages directed at a person privately or to an online group.

Gossiping - Telling people secrets you promised not to tell others in order to get more attention, to get back at them, or to make them look bad. The intent of this is malicious.

Harassment - Repeatedly sending offensive messages.

Joking / Kidding - A way to tease each other in a kind way. It is done with no malicious intent.

Kid in the Middle
(KIM or Bystander) - The person who is caught somewhere in-between a social situation.

Leadership - Standing up for what you think is right. Stopping a bully in the cafeteria. Taking control of a bad situation, and making it right.

Obvious Aggression - Deliberate acts of aggression such as pushing someone in the middle of the cafeteria.

Outing / Taunting - Sending or posting material about someone that contains sensitive, private, or embarrassing information, including forwarding private messages or images.

Peer Aggression - Physical or verbal aggression

Physical Aggression - Harm through damage or threat of damage to another person’s physical well being.

Proactive Relational Aggression - Behavior that is a means for achieving a goal. For example, you feel you need to exclude someone to maintain your own social status. Example: A girl is mad at another girl for being “more popular” so she spreads a rumor about her to ruin her reputation.

Reactive Relational Aggression - A defensive response to bullying with intensions of revenge. (Someone is being bullied repeatedly in school and then they become a bully themselves for protection).

Secret Aggression - Sneaky acts of aggression such as body language and exclusion.

Sharing - Telling information about a friend to another friend to keep a mutual acquaintance updated.

Taunting - Calling someone names to hurt another person and to feel more powerful than the person who is being taunted.

Telling - Reporting to an adult when a person sees something cruel happening to themselves or others. The intention of the reporting is to keep yourself or the other person from harm.

Tattling - Telling an adult something someone else has done to get attention or get them in trouble. Includes exaggerating a harmless incident or lying to an adult about what some else did.

Verbal Aggression - Obvious and hidden verbal acts of aggression towards your friend such as threats, putdowns and name-calling.

Victim / Target - The person who is being aggressed upon.