Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy.
Br J Dev Psychol. 2011 Nov;29(Pt 4):765-82. doi: 10.1348/2044-835X.002007. Epub 2010 Nov 29.
The present research focused on the development of children's ability to spontaneously suspend sincerity or tell a lie according to different communicative contexts. The issue of sincerity in communication is rather complex since in everyday interactions sincerity is expected, while there are specific communicative acts where sincerity is not prescribed or even banished. This study investigated how children (N= 80, ranging in age from 3 to 6.5 years) handled communications involving insincerity: fantasy stories, lies, and politeness situations. The results showed that the ability to deal with insincerity emerges gradually during the preschool years with an increasing trend of difficulty, from fantasy to politeness situations, and a notable amount of variability not equally distributed among the tasks.
本研究关注的是儿童根据不同的交际语境自发地中止真诚或说谎的能力的发展。交际中的真诚问题相当复杂，因为在日常互动中，人们期望真诚，但也有一些特定的交际行为不要求甚至排斥真诚。本研究调查了儿童（N=80，年龄在 3 到 6.5 岁之间）如何处理涉及不真诚的交流：幻想故事、谎言和礼貌情境。结果表明，处理不真诚的能力在学龄前阶段逐渐出现，随着难度的增加，从幻想故事到礼貌情境呈上升趋势，而且在任务之间的分布不均，存在显著的可变性。
