(Reuters Health) - Children who are spanked, slapped, shoved or otherwise physically punished may be more prone to antisocial behavior as adults, a U.S. study suggests. Four in five children in the ...

A "punisher" is defined as an event that follows a given response and reduces the future rate of that behavior. For example, if a child has their video game taken away for not completing their ...

COLUMBIA – A team of University of Missouri researchers found children who are severely disciplined as infants have negative behavior up to fifth grade. The study found this to be especially true ...

Punishing students for poor performance may be more effective than rewarding them for doing well, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. In an ...

Many parents dole out punishment when their children do something bad, but Alan Kazdin, director of the Yale Parenting Center, says that even gentle punishments like time outs don’t work. Instead, he ...

To spank or not to spank has been an ongoing debate for many parents. Now a new study says using physical punishment on kids can do real harm later in life. Let’s connect the dots. Scientists have ...

Review of Religious Research, Vol. 54, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 445-468 (24 pages) Using data on 1,214 families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study explored why and under ...

Perhaps the most enlightening psychology experiment ever done, establishing what amounts to one of the few laws of nature in psychology, involved the punishment of lab rats. You set up a conditioning ...

This release is available in German. The heated debate surrounding the German "state Trojan" software for the online monitoring of telecommunication between citizens shows that the concealed ...