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It also suggests that higher levels of aggression are precipitated by less serious aggressive incidents.\u00a0\"So far, the charges and allegations in Sylvan Lake neatly fit Pepler's profile,\" Simmons wrote. \"But I think there's another, more gender-neutral factor at play here -- the inability of the adolescent mind to understand consequences.\"<\/p>\n<p><strong>On air<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Young, professor at York's Osgoode Hall Law School, talked about medical marijuana users not being allowed to get a tax deduction for the money they spend on pot, during a talk show about contradictions in Canada's medical marijuana laws, on CBC Radio's \"Sounds Like Canada\" April 23.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychology Professor Debra Pepler's research on bullying was cited in a column about girls charged with attempted murder... <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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