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My research question is: What are the long-term effects of bullying?

My argument will focus on both the positive and negative aspects of the human experience of being bullied (can you tell I took humanistic psychology?). Negatively, I can argue a sort of mild PTSD depending on how traumatic the bullying experience is. Positively, I can mention that bullying can be humbling.

I can, if necessary, talk about how to resolve the negative effects. This part would be the most interesting for me but it would be time consuming. I would have to research in a few weeks what psychologists have been studying for decades: breaking down the self esteem in to parts and boosting each part individually.

Other kinds of information we could use would include specific examples to reveal how “real” bullying is. Not just elementary teasing, but social aggression in its extreme cases as to gather my audience’s attention. Extreme cases involving verbal aggression, physical aggression and emotional trauma. Those would most likely be found in newspapers and websites dedicated to the victims or even videos. There are plenty of youtube videos about bullying but those cannot be validated as true. I know of makeup artists that can create bruises and scars just as easily I can photo-edit it.


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