Psychological Development and Education ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 616-624.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2024.05.02

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Spontaneous Inferences of Children with Long-term Exposure to Parental Corporal Punishment

LIU Shifan1, ZHANG Rong2, WANG Meifang3, FANG Yongchao3, ZHAO Jianshe4   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048;
    2. Jinan Zhijinshi Street Primary School, Jinan 250012;
    3. College of Elementary Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048;
    4. Department of Medical Imaging, Jinan Children's Hospital, Jinan 250022
  • Published:2024-09-19

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Abstract: Based on the perspective of implicit social cognition, the present study examined the spontaneous inferences of children with long-term exposure to parental corporal punishment by using a probe recognition paradigm. In experiment 1, when children were presented with behavior sentences that imply both trait and situation, children with long-term exposure to corporal punishment (CP-exposed group), as well as children with low exposure to corporal punishment (control group) were inclined to spontaneously infer traits rather than situation. Experiment 2 was designed to further examine the interactive effects of parental corporal punishment and emotional cue on the valence effect of spontaneous trait inferences by using behavior sentences that imply positive or negative trait. The results of experiment 2 revealed that CP-exposed group exhibited positive bias in spontaneous trait inferences in anger cue condition, but they did not make spontaneous trait inferences in neutral cue condition. In both anger and neutral cue conditions, control group did not make spontaneous trait inferences. The findings of the present study indicate that long-term experience of parental corporal punishment has significant influences on children’s spontaneous inferences.

Key words: parental corporal punishment, spontaneous trait inferences, spontaneous situational inferences, valence effect, children

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