Dangers of Punishment
Channel: psychology concepts
Date: 2021-05-05

The use of punishment is often reinforcing to the punisher. Punishment often has a generalized inhibiting effect on the individual. We commonly react to physical punishment by learning to dislike the person who inflicts the pain, and sometimes by reacting aggressively toward that person. What we think is punishment is not always effective in punishing the behaviour. Most teachers and parents particularly think that criticism will punish the behaviour at which it’s aimed.