Bullying and ‘Theory of Mind’: A Critique of the ‘Social Skills Deficit’ View of Anti‐Social Behaviour

By J. Sutton, Pete Smith, J. Swettenham. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Links between social information processing in middle childhood and involvement in bullying (2003, methodology): “Many studies have focused on the social skills of aggressive children and the reasons why they respond aggressively [Cairns and Cairns, 1991; Dodge and Crick, 1990; Pakaslahti, 2000; Sutton et al., 1999].”
What is bullying? A theoretical redefinition. (2014, background): “While it is possible that bullies simply fail to observe or respect the submissive signals of weaker individuals (Lorenz, 1966), bullies’ average or better social skills (Garandeau & Cillessen, 2006; Shakoor et al., 2012; Sutton et al., 1999) weakens that explanation.”
Relationships among Parenting Practices, Parental Stress, Child Behaviour, and Children's Social-Cognitive Development. (2009, background): “In particular, those who use indirect methods of bullying (e.g. spreading rumours) need to be quite skilled at manipulating the thoughts of others (Sutton et al., 1999a).”
Bullying in schools: Lessons from two decades of research (2000, background): “This latter finding is of interest as it suggests that bullies in some cases (at least in ringleader bullies) have good theory of mind skills [Sutton et al., 1999] and high social intelligence [Kaukiainen et al.”
Bullying in Middle School: Individual and School Characteristics of Victims and Offenders (2002, background): “In this sense, these conclusions certainly echo the social intelligence argument towards bullying (Kaukiainen et al., 1999; Sutton et al., 1999a, 1999b).”
Moral emotions and bullying: A cross-national comparison of differences between bullies, victims and outsiders (2003, background): “In contrast, the second perspective stresses the role of adaptive motivation to explain bullying behaviour [Smith, 1991; Smith et al., 1993; Sutton et al., 1999a].”
Developmental Changes in the Priority of Perceived Status in Childhood and Adolescence. (2010, unknown): “If social competence is indeed deﬁned as being successful in achieving one’s goals, whatever they may be, then it is possible, according to Sutton et al. (2001), that the pursuit of status, and the desire to pursue status, are part of normative social growth (see also Topping, Bremner, & Holmes,…”
Social cognition and moral cognition in bullying: What's wrong? (2006, background): “An example of an emotion story taken from Sutton et al. (1999b) is:”