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Executive Functions and Young Children's Lie-Telling and Lie Maintenance
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O'Connor, Alison M.; Dykstra, Victoria W.; Evans, Angela D. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The current study is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the activation--decision--construction model (Walczyk, Roper, Seemann, & Humphrey, 2003, 2009) in relation to young children's lie-telling and lie maintenance. Young children (3 to 4 years of age, N = 93) completed the temptation-resistance paradigm to elicit a…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Decision Making, Deception, Models
Emergence of Lying in Very Young Children
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Evans, Angela D.; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Lying is a pervasive human behavior. Evidence to date suggests that from the age of 42 months onward, children become increasingly capable of telling lies in various social situations. However, there is limited experimental evidence regarding whether very young children will tell lies spontaneously. The present study investigated the emergence of…
Descriptors: Deception, Young Children, Toddlers, Child Behavior