Editing Intimidation (section)

==Description==
Intimidation is derived from the verb intimidate, and it comes from the Latin word {{lang|la|intimidat}}, it means to "make timid." Intimidation is defined as an interaction style that emphasizes on "bullying, exploiting, or manipulating others, solely for one's own advantage."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morrison |first=Eileen F. |date=1992 |title=A coercive interactional style as an antecedent to aggression in psychiatric patients |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nur.4770150604 |journal=Research in Nursing & Health |language=en |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=421–431 |doi=10.1002/nur.4770150604|pmid=1448573 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Intimidation may be employed consciously or unconsciously, and a percentage of people who employ it consciously may do so as the result of selfishly rationalized notions of its appropriation, utility or self-[[empowerment]]. Intimidation related to [[prejudice]] and [[discrimination]] may include conduct "which annoys, threatens, intimidates, alarms, or puts a person in fear of their safety...because of a belief or perception regarding such person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct."<ref name = harassment>{{cite web|url=http://definitions.uslegal.com/h/harassment/|title=Harassment Law and Legal Definition|website=uslegal.com|publisher=USLegal}}</ref>

Intimidation may manifest into coercion or threat with physical contacts, glowering countenance or in its own manner as [[psychological manipulation|emotional manipulation]], [[verbal abuse]], making someone feel lower than you, purposeful [[embarrassment]] and/or actual physical assault. "Behavior may become [[harassment]] in forms of epithets, derogatory comments or slurs and lewd propositions, assault, impeding or blocking movement, offensive touching or any physical interference with normal work or movement, and visual insults, such as derogatory posters or cartoons."<ref name = harassment/>

Threatening behaviors may be conceptualized as a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for interrelational [[dominance (ethology)|dominance]] generally seen in animals. Alternatively, intimidation may result from the type of society in which individuals are socialized, as human beings are generally reluctant to engage in confrontation or threaten [[violence]].<ref>Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (2009)</ref>

Like all behavioral traits, it exists in greater or lesser manifestation in each individual person over time, but may be a more significant "compensatory behavior" for some as opposed to others. Behavioral theorists often see threatening behaviours as a consequence of being threatened by others, including parents, [[teacher|authority figures]], playmates and siblings. For self-defense, [[use of force]] is justified when a person reasonably believes that it the force is necessary to defend themself or another against the immediate use of unlawful force.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Simons |first1=Kenneth W. |title=Self-Defense: Reasonable Beliefs or Reasonable Self-Control? |journal=New Criminal Law Review |date=1 January 2008 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=51–90 |doi=10.1525/nclr.2008.11.1.51|url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/763 }}</ref>