Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception
The objective of the current study was to examine how the expected rewards, theory of mind, and false praise-telling relate to interventional deception that prevents moral transgression. A sample of 114 children aged 4-7 years participated in the study. The expected rewards ratio was a statistically...
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| description | The objective of the current study was to examine how the expected rewards, theory of mind, and false praise-telling relate to interventional deception that prevents moral transgression. A sample of 114 children aged 4-7 years participated in the study. The expected rewards ratio was a statistically significant predictor of interventional deception, with the children being most likely to deceive to prevent moral transgressions when the deception involved high personal gain. Overall, children who gave false praise and who passed the hidden emotion task were more likely to deceive than those who told another individual an unpleasant truth and failed the emotion understanding task. The results are discussed with respect to diverse developmental conceptions and studies on prosocial behaviors and sociocognitive and cultural factors involved in deception. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a267354fc9204dbda50cb8149a999d622025-02-02T15:49:16ZengSciendoPsychology of Language and Communication2083-85062024-01-0128113916810.58734/plc-2024-0007Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deceptionPłotnikowska Joanna0Filip Anna11Department of Cognitive and Comparative Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland3Institute of Psychology, Ignatianum University in Cracow, PolandThe objective of the current study was to examine how the expected rewards, theory of mind, and false praise-telling relate to interventional deception that prevents moral transgression. A sample of 114 children aged 4-7 years participated in the study. The expected rewards ratio was a statistically significant predictor of interventional deception, with the children being most likely to deceive to prevent moral transgressions when the deception involved high personal gain. Overall, children who gave false praise and who passed the hidden emotion task were more likely to deceive than those who told another individual an unpleasant truth and failed the emotion understanding task. The results are discussed with respect to diverse developmental conceptions and studies on prosocial behaviors and sociocognitive and cultural factors involved in deception.https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2024-0007deceptionprosocialinterventional deceptionchildrenfalse praiselie |
| spellingShingle | Płotnikowska Joanna Filip Anna Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception Psychology of Language and Communication deception prosocial interventional deception children false praise lie |
| title | Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception |
| title_full | Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception |
| title_fullStr | Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception |
| title_short | Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception |
| title_sort | who lies to protect another motivational behavioral and socio cognitive predictors of children s interventional deception |
| topic | deception prosocial interventional deception children false praise lie |
| url | https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2024-0007 |
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