Parents don’t like it when children lie. But what do the kids themselves think about it? New research suggests truth telling isn’t black and white.

As children get older, their moral evaluations of both lies and truths is increasingly influenced by whether they think this behaviour will cause harm to either others or themselves.

Classified as: children, lying, Victoria Talwar, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, society and culture, social and moral development
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Published on: 5 Oct 2016

If you want your child to tell the truth, it’s best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That’s what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving 372 children between the ages of 4 and 8.

Classified as: Faculty of Education, Research, children, lying, Victoria Talwar, Research News, truth, punishment, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
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Published on: 8 Dec 2014
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