Early physical punishment does not predict later social dominance orientation.

Evidence

The efforts to find childhood antecedents of a social dominance orientation proved less successful. Students responded to the question about physical punishment by checking one of seven categories running from “Never” to “Practically every day.” The median response was “Three, four, or five times,” and SDO scores proved unrelated to these answers. High SDOs also did not seem to have had angrier parents than low SDOs did (−.06). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 974

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominance psychology is older than prestige and runs on fear-based coercion — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 396