Editing Mobbing (section)

== Cause ==
Janice Harper followed her ''[[HuffPost|Huffington Post]]'' essay with a series of essays in both ''The Huffington Post''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janice-harper|title=Janice Harper – HuffPost|website=www.huffingtonpost.com}}</ref> and in her column "Beyond Bullying: Peacebuilding at Work, School and Home" in ''[[Psychology Today]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-bullying|title=Beyond Bullying|website=Psychology Today}}</ref> that argued that mobbing is a form of group aggression innate to [[primate]]s, and that those who engage in mobbing are not necessarily "evil" or "psychopathic", but responding in a predictable and patterned manner when someone in a position of leadership or influence communicates to the group that someone must go. For that reason, she indicated that anyone can and will engage in mobbing, and that once mobbing gets underway, just as in the animal kingdom it will almost always continue and intensify as long as the target remains with the group. She subsequently published a book on the topic<ref name="amazon.com">{{cite book|title=Mobbed!: What to Do When They Really Are Out to Get You|first=Janice Harper|last=PhD|date= 2013|publisher=Backdoor Press|isbn = 978-0692693339}}</ref> in which she explored animal behavior, organizational cultures and historical forms of group aggression, suggesting that mobbing is a form of group aggression on a continuum of [[structural violence]] with [[genocide]] as the most extreme form of mob aggression.