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Elizabeth Gershoff's Work on Spanking Featured on UT Home Page
Posted: April 8, 2011
From UT's "Know" section, featured on UT's home page:
To spank or not to spank
By Daniel Oppenheimer, College of Natural Sciences
Published: March 22
In 2002, Elizabeth Gershoff published the first-ever meta-analysis of research (PDF) on the effects of corporal punishment on children.
Now an associate professor in the School of Human Ecology and a faculty research associate in the Population Research Center, Gershoff continues to delve into the impact of spanking (and other, more severe forms of physical punishment) on children. She also looks more broadly at the impacts of poverty, community violence and neighborhoods on child and youth development over time.
