2022-05-22

McLaughlin and her colleagues analyzed7 data from a large study of children between the ages of three and 11. They focused on 147 children around ages 10 and 11 who had been spanked, excluding children who had also experienced more severe forms of violence.

麦克劳林和同事们分析了一项涵盖了3岁到11岁儿童的大型研究的数据。他们重点关注了147名被打过屁股的10岁到11岁儿童，但不包括曾遭受更严重暴力虐待的儿童。

Each child lay in an MRI machine and watched a computer screen on which were displayed different images of actors making "fearful" and "neutral" faces. A scanner captured the child's brain activity in response to each kind of face, and those images were analyzed to determine whether the faces sparked different patterns of brain activity in children who were spanked compared to those who were not.

每个孩子接受核磁共振成像扫描时，面前的电脑屏幕会播放演员做出的“恐惧”和“中立”表情。扫描仪会在屏幕播放不同表情时捕获孩子的大脑活动，研究人员对这些大脑成像进行分析，以确定被打过屁股的孩子的大脑活动是否和没被打过屁股的孩子有所不同。