Justin K Scott
Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USAAbout the author:
My research focuses on understanding parents’ beliefs about childrearing and discipline, including how parents obtain and evaluate information about parenting.
What I want to achieve:
My hope is that through a greater understanding of how parents perceive scientific information about childrearing, we can develop more convincing evidence-based messages about discipline to ultimately change U.S. public opinion of physical punishment.
Research Articles
Scientific evidence is easily sidelined by parental beliefs and displaced by critical anecdotes on the Internet.
Justin K ScottNovember 2020
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