Table 3.

Interventions to Reduce High School Aggression

	Common Features of Traditional interventions	An intervention that lessens the influence of a threat to status or respect
What they say	Bullying and aggression are not allowed You should not be mean, call people names, hit people, exclude people, or start rumors about people If those things happen to you, you should think positively and use positive coping skills	People have the potential to change themselves or their social places in life; Therefore people are not stuck being one kind of person—a loser or a bully;
How they say it	Classroom lectures from teachers Online activities to reinforce the message Whole-school assemblies Token economies for good behavior Skits and role plays Parent training, so kids get the message at home Homework	Stories of formerly-aggressive people or shy people who learned other ways to be; Scientific evidence for how this was possible, drawing on neuroscience and field experimentation; Stories from peers who found this information helpful; Self-persuasion writing exercises

Note: Common features of traditional interventions abridged from descriptions of programs in past meta-analyses (e.g., Yeager et al., 2015)