There is still no evidence that physical punishment is effective or beneficial: Reply to Larzelere, Gunnoe, Ferguson, and Roberts (2019) and Rohner and Melendez-Rhodes (2019)

Gershoff, Elizabeth T., Gail S. Goodman, Cindy Miller-Perrin, George W. Holden, Yo Jackson, and Alan E. Kazdin. 2019. “There Is Still No Evidence That Physical Punishment Is Effective or Beneficial: Reply to Larzelere, Gunnoe, Ferguson, and Roberts (2019) and Rohner and Melendez-Rhodes (2019)”. American Psychologist 74 (4): 503 – 505.
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