Talwar Victoria, Lee Kang
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, 3700 McTavish, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Child Dev. 2008 Jul-Aug;79(4):866-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01164.x.
The relation between children's lie-telling and their social and cognitive development was examined. Children (3-8 years) were told not to peek at a toy. Most children peeked and later lied about peeking. Children's subsequent verbal statements were not always consistent with their initial denial and leaked critical information revealing their deceit. Children's conceptual moral understanding of lies, executive functioning, and theory-of-mind understanding were also assessed. Children's initial false denials were related to their first-order belief understanding and their inhibitory control. Children's ability to maintain their lies was related to their second-order belief understanding. Children's lying was related to their moral evaluations. These findings suggest that social and cognitive factors may play an important role in children's lie-telling abilities.
研究了儿童说谎与其社会和认知发展之间的关系。研究人员告诉3至8岁的儿童不要偷看玩具。大多数儿童都偷看了，之后还对偷看行为说谎。儿童随后的言语表述并不总是与他们最初的否认一致，还泄露了关键信息，暴露了他们的欺骗行为。研究人员还评估了儿童对谎言的概念性道德理解、执行功能和心理理论理解。儿童最初的虚假否认与他们的一阶信念理解和抑制控制有关。儿童维持谎言的能力与他们的二阶信念理解有关。儿童的说谎行为与他们的道德评价有关。这些发现表明，社会和认知因素可能在儿童的说谎能力中发挥重要作用。
