Punishment

"Punishment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting undesirable behavior.

Descriptor ID	D011678
MeSH Number(s)	F02.463.425.770.571 I01.880.630.716
Concept/Terms	Punishment Punishment Punishments

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Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Psychological Phenomena [F02]
Mental Processes [F02.463]
Learning [F02.463.425]
Reinforcement (Psychology) [F02.463.425.770]
Punishment [F02.463.425.770.571]
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Informal [I01.880.630]
Punishment [I01.880.630.716]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	1	0	1
2006	1	0	1
2014	0	1	1
2019	1	1	2
2024	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

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Hall KE, Woller SJ, Vitus D, Ruiz F, McGrew SJ, Vujanovic AA. Associations of Sensitivity to Reward and Punishment with Alcohol Use Severity in a Trauma-Exposed Community Sample: The Role of Drinking Motives. Subst Use Misuse. 2026; 61(6):850-857.

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Thompson EL, Lehman SM, Adams AR, Kaiver CM, Scarfone GVR, Gonzalez A, Hawes SW, Scardamalia KM, Gonzalez R, Pham AV. The Longitudinal Effects of Exclusionary School Discipline on Adolescent Well-Being. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2025 12; 53(12):2069-2085.

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Thompson EL, Gonzalez MR, Scardamalia KM, Pham AV, Adams AR, Gonzalez A, Rizzo Scarfone GV, Lehman SM, Kaiver CM, Hawes SW, Gonzalez R. Structural Determinants of School Discipline: Examining State-Level Racial Bias and Neighborhood Opportunity. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Nov; 64(11):1305-1316.

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Pelham WE, Tapert SF, Gonzalez MR, Ahiarakwe U, Patel H, Davis IS, Meruelo AD, Van Rinsveld AM, Marshall AT, Dick AS, Guillaume M, Dowling GJ, Baskin-Sommers A, Brown SA. How Does Parental Monitoring Reduce Adolescent Substance Use? Preliminary Tests of Two Potential Mechanisms. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2024 May; 85(3):389-394.

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Bansal PS, Haas SM, Willoughby MT, Coles EK, Pelham WE, Waschbusch DA. A Pilot Study of Emotional Response to Time-Out in Children With Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits. Psychol Rep. 2020 Oct; 123(5):2017-2037.

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Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya I, Keeney AJ, Villodas MT. The role of co-occurring intimate partner violence, alcohol use, drug use, and depressive symptoms on disciplinary practices of mothers involved with child welfare. Child Abuse Negl. 2019 04; 90:76-87.

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Sierra-Mercado D, Deckersbach T, Arulpragasam AR, Chou T, Rodman AM, Duffy A, McDonald EJ, Eckhardt CA, Corse AK, Kaur N, Eskandar EN, Dougherty DD. Decision making in avoidance-reward conflict: a paradigm for non-human primates and humans. Brain Struct Funct. 2015 Sep; 220(5):2509-17.

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Horn IB, Lewin A, Turner-Musa J, Edwards MC, Joseph JG. The use of AAP-recommended disciplinary practice guidelines among African American caregivers of children in Head Start programs. Public Health Rep. 2006 May-Jun; 121(3):324-30.

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Atkins MS, McKay MM, Frazier SL, Jakobsons LJ, Arvanitis P, Cunningham T, Brown C, Lambrecht L. Suspensions and detentions in an urban, low-income school: punishment or reward? J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2002 Aug; 30(4):361-71.

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