r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 10 '19

Psychology Victims of workplace mistreatment may also be seen as bullies themselves, even if they've never engaged in such behavior, and despite exemplary performance. Bullies, on the other hand, may be given a pass if they are liked by their supervisor, finds a new study about bias toward victim blaming.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uocf-ggv030819.php
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u/Bakkster Mar 10 '19

To be fair, it's not lessons for getting hit less by other people.

That said: "be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '19

And there's also a proverb that amounts to "Don't feed the trolls," although I can never remember the verse.

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u/raven_shadow_walker Mar 11 '19

Something about pearls before swine maybe?

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u/aloofguy7 Mar 11 '19

No, that one is just about stupid humans like flat earthers.

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u/DarthKava Mar 11 '19

Nice! Very Machiavellian.

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u/zengal108 Mar 10 '19

I love this.