Children’s normalization of corporal punishment is normal schema-building, not self-deception.

Evidence

This is not self-deception. It is not a psychological defense mechanism in the clinical sense. It is the ordinary operation of how children build their models of reality. Children learn about the world through what cognitive psychologists call schematic processing: they develop frameworks — schemas — for understanding how things work, who people are, and what kinds of events to expect in what kinds of situations. The schema for “what happens when I misbehave” is built from experience, and if the experience consistently involves physical correction, then physical correction becomes part of the schema. It is encoded not as exceptional but as typical. — , The Rod and the Child, 8636

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the schema/scripts literature on cognitive development and to ‘habitus’ in Bourdieu — socialization as embodied normalcy. — connects to: Cultural normativeness does not reduce the harm of child corporal correction. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5717; Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9852; Normalization reflects accurate perception of a harmful environment, not faulty cognition. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8639 (+1 more)

Related

• Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified (similarity 0.88)
• Normalization reflects accurate perception of a harmful environment, not faulty cognition. (similarity 0.87)
• Cultural normativeness does not reduce the harm of child corporal correction. (similarity 0.86)
• Corporal punishment is contraindicated for moral learning (similarity 0.82)
• Corporal punishment activates fear rather than teaching the intended rule. (similarity 0.80)
• Corporal punishment harms children’s brains through the same mechanisms as physical abuse. (similarity 0.80)
• Children learn power rather than moral rules from being physically punished (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural normativeness moderates but never eliminates corporal punishment’s harm (similarity 0.80)
• Corporal punishment impairs the very self-regulation it aims to build. (similarity 0.79)
• Home corporal punishment undermines child sexual abuse prevention training (similarity 0.79)
• Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them (similarity 0.78)
• Regular physical punishment undermines children’s internalization of body-safety education (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Researching corporal punishment requires different methods than abuse because children see it as justified #expands (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 9852