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Widely accessible interventions are needed to provide information about safer and more effective discipline strategies. This study used a randomized controlled trial to examine the efficacy of a brief (20\u2009min) online intervention (Play Nicely) to reduce caregivers\u2019 favorable attitudes toward and use of spanking in a low-income U.S. sample (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u2009107) recruited from a midwestern pediatric primary care clinic. The study also examined whether there were differences in treatment effects as well as perceptions of the intervention\u2019s cultural sensitivity between white and black caregivers. Participants in the treatment group showed greater declines in favorable attitudes toward spanking from pretest to posttest and from pretest to 1-month follow-up compared to the control group. There was no significant difference between conditions in caregivers\u2019 reported use of spanking from pretest to follow-up. Moreover, there were no differences in outcomes or reported perceptions of the intervention\u2019s cultural acceptability between white participants and black participants. Play Nicely may be a promising and easily accessible intervention to change caregivers\u2019 favorable attitudes toward spanking. 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