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Hello there! I wanted to share with y'all some of the research findings I came across whilst putting together a corporal punishment speech for my Psych 101 class. Also, if you are interested in my presentation experience: I read the presentation verbatim, but when it came to question time at the end of the speech, a flood of anxiety pulsed through my body.. The first question was 'why did you choose this topic?' I then thought to myself "good question! it seems i have misplaced my prefabricated response..." as I stared at the ground. I then answered with ' well I was spanked and this information Is super helpful to me. I want to help you out, especially if any of you want to become parents or are parents. Also, I am in therapy and this helped me to understand my fight or flight responses to a lot of things.' After this interaction I felt really nervous and had a hard time staying focused. The next person asked "Why do you think people tend to parent their children like they were parented?" I actually don't remember exactly what I said other than that it is a biological imperative for children to do what their parents do and something about genetics. The only thing I remember after that was that the same person asked another question and I didn't understand the question. I gave a head nod and said blankly "that's good" then walked back to my seat. My inner mom/critic has come up for me a lot in the days following the speech, which has given me some good material to bring into therapy. I would like to add that I am aware that the reason I am posting this is due to a compulsion or feeling to try to gain external validation. None the less, I hope it helps! P.s. I added 2 extra studies. 1 was the Harsh Corporal Punishment-Gray matter... 2 was Gene and gender environment interplay Spanking&Aggression-Pediatrics-2010-Taylor-415-24.pdf Spanking as Discipline PSYCH-101.doc Spanking and Childhood agression - Gene and Gender environment interplay2011.pdf diminishment of gray matter with HCP-2009.pdf CorporalPunishment-Cognitive abiltiy-Longitudinal- 2 representative age groups 2009.pdf corporal punishment study-NewZealand 2009.pdf 1- Maternal warmth, spanking and agression- Gershoff- Study2013.pdf