Warmbold [mailto:jwarm...@oakton.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:02 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Early Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study Shows -
Yahoo! News
Sorry but with the extensive research on the impact of modeling, I think
it's
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From: Rick Froman [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:15 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Early Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study Shows -
Yahoo! News
I think critical thinking is evidenced
This sounds a bit like social learning. Should we file this under the annals
of we already knew this? We've known for a long time that hitters make
hitters.
m
--
Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts Sciences
Baker University
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The usual--
It was a retrospective verbal report study, they didn't assign
toddlers randomly to spanked/nonspanked groups etc etc.
They could just as well concluded that more aggressive toddlers are
more likely to be spanked.
On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
for Aggressive Toddlers, Study Shows -
Yahoo! News
The usual--
It was a retrospective verbal report study, they didn't assign toddlers
randomly to spanked/nonspanked groups etc etc.
They could just as well concluded that more aggressive toddlers are more likely
to be spanked.
On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:59
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Early Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study
Shows - Yahoo! News
This sounds a bit like social learning. Should we file this under the
annals of we already knew this? We've known for a long time that hitters
make hitters
In reading the original research at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122597249/PDFSTART
it does appear the authors jump too easily from predictive to causal, and even
more so in the lead author's conversation in the media. To what degree does
the longitudinal,
] Early Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study
Shows - Yahoo! News
The usual--
It was a retrospective verbal report study, they didn't assign toddlers
randomly to spanked/nonspanked groups etc etc.
They could just as well concluded that more aggressive toddlers are more
likely
Spankings Make for Aggressive Toddlers, Study
Shows - Yahoo! News
This sounds a bit like social learning. Should we file this under the
annals of we already knew this? We've known for a long time that hitters
make hitters.
m
--
Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
