“…Relational victimization may also limit opportunities for dating and sex through social exclusion, or by inflicting psychosocial maladjustment in the form of anxiety, depression, loneliness, or peer rejection, which are markers of low fitness (Arnocky & Vaillancourt, ). Due to greater obligatory parental investment, as well as less variance and a lower limit in the number of offspring that can be produced, females are less likely to risk using physical aggression, and therefore, rely more heavily on relational forms that reduce the probability of physical injury (Archer, ; Campbell, ; Liddle et al, ; Vaillancourt, ). In line with this view of relational bullying, adolescent girls who are attractive, dress provocatively, or have had more sexual partners than peers, are more likely to be relationally victimized or derogated (Gallup et al, ; Leenaars, Dane & Marini, ; Vaillancourt & Sharma, ).…”