A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning

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Title A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning
Publication Type Web Article
Pub Year 2011
Authors Harper, J.
Keywords compassion, humanness, shunning
Notes shunning"One of the least discussed aspects of bullying and mobbing, and perhaps the most powerful and damaging, is the practice of shunning."
compassion, humanness"To survive as humans, we must rely on social support, and when we withdraw that support on the basis of unpopularity we might advance our own social survival, but we erode our own capacity for compassion and our own potential to be fully human and humane."
URL http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janice-harper/a-reason-and-season-to-st_b_1146103.html