As long as there are unmet needs, there will be bullies, victims, and bystanders. Organizational psychology examines the systems that foster the rise of bully triads in schools, the workplace, and in cyberbullying, and provides change in the form of improved policies and procedures, communication and education and development. Cyberbullying is a different system to change because the delivery and scope of the interface are unbridled and without checks and balances. The bully feeds off of the rewards that temporarily meet the bully's perceived unmet needs and victims and bystanders receive the effects of bullying which mimic the negative control of instrumental conditioning creating feelings of loss concerning safety and love and belonging. The educational opportunity is to identify the triad's unmet needs and then provide support to change negative attitudes and beliefs into beliefs about empowerment, self-actualization, and self-efficacy.
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