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Bullying affects more than just isolated and marginalized students, a new study shows. In fact, relatively popular students may be targeted and may actually suffer more from a single act of social aggression.

A study of students and their friendship networks in 19 North Carolina schools shows that the risk of being bullied drops dramatically only for adolescents in the top five percent of the school’s social strata.

“We did find that students who are isolated do get bullied,” says Diane Felmlee, professor of sociology at Penn State. “However, for most students, the likelihood of being targeted by aggressive acts increases as a student becomes more popular, with the exception of those at the very top.”

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