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Debra Pepler

Researcher at York University

Publications -  167
Citations -  15426

Debra Pepler is an academic researcher from York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Aggression. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 162 publications receiving 14531 citations. Previous affiliations of Debra Pepler include University of York & University of Toronto.

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The development and treatment of childhood aggression.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the challenges in the development and treatment of childhood aggression and discuss the role of social cognition and social networks in the early stages of the development of aggression.
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Peer involvement in bullying: insights and challenges for intervention.

TL;DR: Peers' anti-bullying initiatives must be reinforced by simultaneous whole-school interventions, and the results were interpreted as confirming peers' central roles in the processes that unfold during playground bullying episodes.
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Naturalistic Observations of Peer Interventions in Bullying

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined peer intervention in bullying using naturalistic observations on school playgrounds and found that the majority (57%) of interventions were effective in stopping bullying and that boys were more likely to intervene when the bully and victim were male and girls were female.
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Observations of Bullying in the Playground and in the Classroom

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed naturalistic observations to compare bullying and victimization in the playground and in the classroom, and found that there were more opportunities to observe aggression and receive and initiate aggression in the play area than the classroom.
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Observations of Bullying in the Classroom

TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence and nature of bullying was assessed on the basis of observations of children's interactions in the classroom, based on a systemic developmental model of bullying and victimization.