Apr 20, 2008 — See New York Magazine
Last week, the first season of Bravo's deliciously nasty, "The Real Housewives of New York City" ended much the same way it began, with dinner and savagery. In the mid-nineties, social (or "relational") aggression started gaining scientific attention as the female version of bullying. Whereas most forms of aggression are associated with being disliked, relational aggression is also associated with being really popular," says Mitchell Prinstein, a psychologist in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC. And the housewives in this show are extremely talented social aggressors.
