Abstract
Recent literature on bullying suggests that victims of KEYW ORDS bullying are likely to have certain emotional reactions that contribute anti-bullying to the problem. This is not to say that victims in any way deserve the intervention; treatment that they get from more aggressive peers, but rather to bullying; propose that they themselves can be empowered to change the situ-bystanders; ation. The purpose of the present review is to examine the proposal emotional that the ways in which victims express their emotions during a bullying expression episode can play a crucial role in the responses of peers. There are implications for both researchers and practitioners to develop new insights that may help vulnerable children and adolescents.