> 1. Sweets and food should not be used as reward and punishnent in the first place. So that not eating them is not emotionally punishment, but just healthy thi

> 1. Sweets and food should not be used as reward and punishnent in the first place. So that not eating them is not emotionally punishment, but just healthy thing to do. That’s a nice thought, but millions of years of co-evolution with plants using animals for seed dispersal trumps a few thousand years of post-agricultural revolution excesses. Maybe in another million years we’ll lose our genes favouring sweet foods, who knows, but until then candy is a safe bet. > 2. Cue meltdown in many kids with that tactic - you bring up ecpectation and then crash it. Unlikely given that the experimenter will be a total stranger. There will be no established incentive structure to use tantrums for psychological manipulation as with the child’s parents. > 3. Have you people even interacted with kid? What it is with adults who seek to design punishment into situation where there is already compliance or which is about unimportant bs? That can be said about any area of study. Even a study of a supposedly solved problem or “unimportant bs” can lead to great insight.