LA Times: It's something your teenage child already knows well: Those popular kids can be mighty mean.
But he or she might not be clued in to the conclusion drawn by a paper released Tuesday in the American Sociological Review, which found that the more central you are to your school's social network, the more aggressive you are as well -- unless you're at the top of the heap, in which case you're more likely to give your peers a break.
“By and large, status increases aggression, until you get to the very top,” said the study's lead author, UC Davis sociologist Robert Faris. “When kids become more popular, later on they become more aggressive.”
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-mean-kids-20110208,0,1008368.story
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