In this episode, Jake and Brooke dive into Dobson's first book, Dare to Discipline, aka the reason you were spanked as a kid. And oh boy, Dobson comes out swinging in this one.
Content warning for: child abuse, violence, and overly long explanations of operant conditioning.
References and further reading:
- APA Resolution on Physical Discipline of Children By Parents (2019)
- "Physical discipline is harmful and ineffective" by Eve Glicksman for the APA's Monitor on Psychology, explaining the Resolution of Physical Discipline (2019)
- "The case against spanking" by Brendan L. Smith for the APA's Monitor on Psychology (2012)
- "The Research on Spanking and Its Implications for Intervention" by Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin
- "Fractioning Human Intelligence" by Adam Hampshire et al. (2012) in Neuron, complicating the oversimplistic understanding of intelligence as a singular variable (IQ)
- "The Bell Curve" by Shaun on Youtube (2020), analyzing how IQ has been, and continues to be, used by people to perpetuate white supremacy
- Engle v. Vitale explainer, and why it doesn't ban prayer in public schools the way Dobson claims it does.
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