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Ph.D. from the University of Umeå, Sweden, in 1969. From 1970 to the present, professor of psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has published extensively in English, includingDevelopment of antisocial and prosocial behavior (co-editor, 1986) andBullying at school: what we know and what we can do (1993); the latter book has been published in ten different languages. Dr Olweus has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, CA), is President of the International Society for Research on Aggression and is internationally recognized as a leading authority on bully/victim problems.

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Olweus, D. Bully/victim problems in school. Prospects 26, 331–359 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195509

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