What are the characteristics of a bully?

Answer 1

What you are requesting here is a stereotype or archetype. The problem is that while there might be some truth to all stereo and archetypes, they are all wrong, incorrect, misguided, and biased.

Some characteristics of a bully (may) include:

• Is constantly teasing, taunting, and putting down others
• Occasionally targets one or a small number of others
• Makes snide, sarcastic, or sardonic comments aimed at one, more, or all others
• Is perceived as having high self-esteem
• Is perceived as having low self-esteem
• Appears to be popular
• Appears to be unpopular
• Appears to be unremarkable or ignored but not excluded by others
• Is befriended by others for their protection
• Does not have empathy
• Has high empathy, except for his target(s)
• Does not feel compassion easily
• Experiences a high degree of compassion for some, but not others
• Has an angry demeanor
• Has a calm demeanor
• High socio-economic status
• Low socio-economic status
• Ambiguous socio-economic status
• May be a witness to or victim of physical, emotional, psychological, and/or sexual violence in the home.
• Has no personal experience with of physical, emotional, psychological, and/or sexual violence in the home.
• Comes from a broken home.
• Comes from a mixed home.
• Raised in a typical nuclear family.
• May be physically strong. (Typically a physical bully)
• May be physically weak. (Typically the intellectual bully)
• May have difficulty following rules.
• May be a stickler for rules and feels empowered to enforce them

As can be seen by the list above, compiled from several different sources, bullies defy description. This is often the problem you will encounter when you try to put a person in a box, that is apply a label to them that is intended to describe that person part and parcel. Humans are complex critters. We do things for an infinite number of reasons, and we share a lot of common behavioral patterns. The problem is that a huge number of the motivating factors behind our behaviors, while similar are different. We're not programed off the same software, and our hardware, again while very similar, is different for every person. Psychology, the branch of science that addresses this, is not a hard science like math or chemistry with infinitely repeatable scenarios that produce exactly the same product. Psychology is a wet science, dealing with marshmallowy mushy software, and drippy wet hardware. You can subject two different subjects to exactly the same stimuli and get dramatically different results, or eerily similar results with no way to understand exactly why.

Is constantly teasing, taunting, and putting down others

Is perceived as having high self-esteem

Answer 2

Some characteristics of a bully include:

- talking bad about others

- making fun of another either directly or indirectly

- physically or verbally threatening another

- purposely embarrassing another

- getting others to exclude another

- calling another person names

- refusing to leave another person alone even if they ask you to

- making another person feel defeated, worthless or a pain

- etc

Answer 3

Children who bully:

• May witness physical and verbal violence or aggression at home. They have a positive view of this behavior, and they act aggressively toward other people, including adults.
• May hit or push other children.
• Are often physically strong.
• May or may not be popular with other children around their same age.
• Have trouble following rules.
• Show little concern for the feelings of others

Answer 4

the five characteristics of a bully is mean, unfair, hurtful, telling you things that are wrong and being stupid

Answer 5

If you hit someone and other thing like that like bullying people on the internet and at school at home anywhere.

Answer 6

Bullies as a need for attention.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

it is repetitive

Answer 9

Fear