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• NY Times (and I) Post Crap Study on Bullying

  I'm a big fan of digging deep when it comes to science reporting. It generally isn't that hard to find some serious flaws: Small samples, questionable methodology, and conclusions that stretch far are sometimes par for the course. But when I posted about a study showing bullies may actually enjoy inflicting pain on others, I didn't poke into it much at all. At least I'm in venerable company, because the New York Times did the same thing. At Slate... Read More... Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:31 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: health, research study, new york times, Slate, bullies, science, Kelly Mills, brain, victim, fake, feelings, MRI, sociopath, press release, faulty

• The Painful Reason Bullies Bully

  There's an idea that kids who bully lack empathy or simply don't feel for their victims. But a new study indicates the truth might be more disturbing than that. Researchers took an admittedly small sample of eight boys, ages 16 to 18, with aggressive conduct disorder, and a group of eight adolescent boys with no obvious aggressive behavior. They showed both groups video footage of someone inflicting pain on another person, and used MRI to track the brain patterns of both groups. What they found was pretty creepy: The boys with aggressive conduct disorder... Read More... Posted Nov 09 2008, 01:27 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: research study, school, high school, bullies, psychology, Kelly Mills, brain, empathy, pain, adolescent, mind, aggressive conduct disorder, MRI, disturbing, victime