Executing discipline with minimum necessary force shapes behavior effectively.
Evidence
A single brilliantly practical principle can be used to generate all these incrementally more severe reactions: that of minimum necessary force. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 459
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 459
- XREF: connects to: Rewarded actions get stamped in and repeated while punished ones fade — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 538; Imperial examination design rewarded gentle engaged pedagogy over corporal correction — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1922; Preventive environmental management outperforms corrective discipline in child formation — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1948 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Institutional discipline correlates inversely with corporal violence.
#corroborates(0.82) — , The Rod and the Child, 2001 - Corporal punishment creates inescapable unpredictable aversive conditions for children
#contradicts(0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 6130 - Corporal punishment is contraindicated for moral learning
#contradicts(0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 6150 - Regular physical punishment undermines children’s internalization of body-safety education
#contradicts(0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 7886