Robert
E. Larzelere
Psychology Dept., 985450
Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha,
NE 68198-5450
(402) 559-2282 rlarzelere@unmc.edu
Publications
Larzelere, R. E., & Kuhn, B. R. (2005, in press). Implications of an extended discipline ladder. The Behavior Therapist.
Larzelere, R. E., & Kuhn, B. R. (2005, in press). Comparing child outcomes of physical punishment and alternative disciplinary tactics: A meta-analysis. Clinical child and Family Psychology Review, 8(1), 1-27.
Powers, S. W., & Larzelere, R. E. (in press). Behavior theory and corporal punishment. In M. Donnelly & Straus (Eds.), Corporal punishment of children in theoretical perspective. Yale University Press.
Polaha, J., Larzelere, R. E., Shapiro, S. K., & Pettit, G. S. (2004). Physical discipline and child behavior problems: A study of ethnic group differences. Parenting: Science and Practice, 4, 339-360.
Larzelere, R. E. (2004) Scientific evidence on smacking. BMJ: British Medicine Journal (eletter at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cqi/eletters/329/7476/1195).
Larzelere, R. E., Kuhn, B. R., & Johnson, B. (2004). The intervention selection bias: An underrecognized confound in intervention research. Psychological Bulletin, 130 (2), 289-303.
Larzelere, R. E., & Kuhn, B. R. (2003). Discipline. In J. J. Ponzetti, Jr. (Ed.), International encyclopedia of marriage and family (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 462-469). New York: Macmillan.
Baumrind, D., Larzelere, R. E., & Cowan, P. A. (2002). Ordinary physical punishment: Is it harmful? Comment on Gershoff (2002). Psychological Bulletin, 128, 580-589. www.apa.org/journals/bul/press_releases/july_2002/
Larzelere, R. E. (2001). Sweden: Data does not support success claims. Families First (Issue 2), 12-15. www.families-first.org.uk/nl/index.html & www.families-first.org.uk/pr/2001-11-01.html Updated and reprinted in 2004 as Sweden's smacking ban: More harm than good. Essex, England: Families First. www.christian.org.uk/pdfpublications/sweden_smacking.pdf
Larzelere, R. E. (2001, May). We need the full picture on both smacking and vaccinations [Letter to the editor]. Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 84, 450. http://adc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/84/5/450e
Larzelere, R. E. (2001). Combining love and limits in authoritative parenting. In J. C. Westman (Ed.), Parenthood in America (pp. 81-89). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. (http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Larzelere/Larzelere.html)
Larzelere, R. E. (2000). Child outcomes of non-abusive and customary physical punishment by parents: An updated literature review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 3 (4), 199-221. (http://ipsapp007.lwwonline.com/content/getfile/4578/4/1/fulltext.pdf)
Larzelere, R. E. (2000). Weak evidence for a smacking ban [Letter to the editor]. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 320, 1538-1539. (www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7248/1538/a)
Larzelere, R. E., & Johnson, B. (1999). Evaluations of the effects of Sweden's spanking ban on physical child abuse rates: A literature review. Psychological Reports, 83, 381-392.
Larzelere, R. E. (1999). To spank or not to spank [Letter to the editor]. Pediatrics, 103, 696-697.
Larzelere, R. E. (1998). Effective vs. counterproductive parental spanking: Toward more light and less heat. Marriage and Family, 1, 179-192.
Larzelere, R. E., Baumrind, D., & Polite, K. (1998). Two emerging perspectives of parental spanking from two 1996 conferences [Letter to the editor]. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 152, 303-305. (http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v152n3/ffull/plt0398-w.html)
Larzelere, R. E., Sather, P. R., Schneider, W. N., Larson, D. B., & Pike, P. L. (1998). Punishment enhances reasoning's effectiveness as a toddler disciplinary response to toddlers. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(2), 388-403. See a review of this article.
Larzelere, R. E., Silver, C., & Polite, K. (1998). Nonabusive spanking: Parental liberty or child abuse? Children's Legal Rights Journal, 17(4), 7-17.
Larzelere, R. E., Schneider, W. N., Larson, D. B., & Pike, P. L. (1996). The effects of discipline responses in delaying toddler misbehavior recurrences. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 18, 35-57.
Larzelere, R. E. (1996). A review of the outcomes of parental use of nonabusive or customary physical punishment. Pediatrics, 98 (4), 824-831.
Larzelere, R. E. (1995). Discipline. In D. Levinson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of marriage and the family, pp. 172-177. New York: Macmillan.
Larzelere, R. E., & Merenda, J. A. (1994). The effectiveness of parental discipline for toddler misbehavior at different levels of child distress. Family Relations, 43, 480-488.
Larzelere, R. E. (1994). Should the use of corporal punishment by parents be considered child abuse? No. In M. A. Mason & E. Gambrill (Eds.), Debating children's lives: Current controversies on children and adolescents (pp. 204-209, 217-218). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Larzelere, R. E. (1993). Response to Oosterhuis: Empirically justified uses of spanking: Toward a discriminating view of corporal punishment. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 21, 142-147.
Larzelere, R. E., Amberson, T. G., & Martin, J. A. (1992). Age differences in perceived discipline problems from 9 to 48 months. Family Relations, 41(2), 192-199.
Larzelere, R. E., & Patterson, G. R. (1990). Parental management: Mediator of the effect of socioeconomic status on early delinquency. Criminology, 28, 301-324.
Larzelere, R. E., Klein, M., Schumm, W. R., & Alibrando, S. A., Jr. (1989). The effects of spanking and other parenting characteristics on self-esteem and perceived fairness of parental discipline. Psychological Reports, 64, 1140-1142.
Larzelere, R. E. (1986). Moderate spanking: Model or deterrent of children's aggression in the family? Journal of Family Violence, 1, 27-36.
Presentations and Unpublished Papers
Larzelere, R. E. (2002) A Comparison of Two Recent Reviews of Scientific Studies of Physical Punishment by Parents. Unpublished document posted at http://people.biola.edu/faculty/paulp/Larzelere02.html
Larzelere, R. E. (2000). [Comparison of conclusions of Larzelere (1999) and Durrant (1999) about the success of Sweden's spanking ban.] Unpublished document posted on the Child Maltreatment listserve.
Larzelere, R. E., & Smith, G. L. (2000, August). Controlled longitudinal effects of five disciplinary tactics on antisocial behavior. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Larzelere, R. E. (1999, June). Discipline of children: To spank or not to spank? Debate presentation (with M. A. Straus) at the Second International Conference of the National Foundation for Family Research and Education. Banff, Alberta. (Summarized at http://people.biola.edu/faculty/paulp/debate.html)
Larzelere, R. E. (1998, August). The intervention selection bias. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Larzelere, R. E. (1998, April). Combining love and limits in disciplinary responses. Paper presented at the Conference on Parenthood in America, Madison, WI. (http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Larzelere/Larzelere.html).
Larzelere, R. E. (1997, September). Implications of research on parental spanking for understanding the effects of parental discipline responses in general. University of Kansas Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds, Kansas City, Kansas.
Larzelere, R. E. (1997, August). Premature advocacy against all parental spanking: Going way beyond science. Invited response to symposium, "Should APA take a position on spanking? A child advocacy perspective," I. A. Hyman (chair), at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.
Larzelere, R. E. (1997, August). Critique of Straus et al. (1997) study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and its implications for the broader topics of nonabusive spanking and parental discipline. Unpublished document posted on the FAMLYSCI listserve. (available at http://people.biola.edu/faculty/paulp/)
Larzelere, R. E. (Chair). (1997, August). Escalation processes within discipline incidents and their prevention. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.
Larzelere, R. E., Larson, D. B., Sather, P. R., Schneider, W. N., & Pike, P. L. (1997, August). Conditions influencing reasoning's effectiveness as a toddler discipline response. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.
Lyons, J. S., & Larzelere, R. E. (1996, August). Where is evidence that non-abusive corporal punishment increases aggression? Paper presented at the XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal.
Sather, P. R., Larzelere, R. E., & Pike, P. L. (1994, August). Side effects of parental discipline responses to toddler misbehavior. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles.
Larzelere, R. E., Schneider, W. N., & Rose, A. N. (1988, August). The Discipline Record: Assessing parental discipline of toddlers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta.