Harsh Punishment Makes Antisocial Kids Worse, Not Better

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Children with callous-unemotional antisocial behavior have a kind of learning disability: they don't update on punishment, only on reward. So when parents see nothing working and escalate — taking away toys, spanking, berating, isolating — they destroy the only thing that could actually help, which is the child's…

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