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Lehardy, Robert K.; Luczynski, Kevin C.; Stocco, Corey S.; Fallon, Maya J.; Rodriguez, Nicole M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2023
Young children break rules (i.e., transgress) and then lie about those transgressions. By adolescence, lying is associated with decreased trust, communication, and quality of relationships, and with befriending antisocial peers. To decrease lies, we replicated differentially reinforcing honest reports about transgressions for one 6-year-old…
Descriptors: Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Control Groups, Deception
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Sauter, Jessica A.; Stocco, Corey S.; Luczynski, Kevin C.; Moline, Adam D. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
Lying during childhood is a common concern for caregivers. Lee et al. (2014) showed that a moral story and instruction implying reinforcers for honesty produced statistically significant improvements in children admitting a transgression. We evaluated the influence of this moral story and instruction on the consistency of honest reports when…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Positive Reinforcement, Deception, Child Behavior