Reputation and prosocial lies in development

Children start to engage in self‐serving deception from approximately 2½ years of age. This emerging self‐centered propensity toward the deliberate covering of truth is predicted by the child's degree of executive function and level of theory of mind. In contrast, existing studies on the emerge...

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Published in:Social development (Oxford, England) England), 2024-02, Vol.33 (1), p.n/a
Main Authors: Guo, Cynthia Xinran, Rochat, Philippe
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Child development
Children
Deception
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Literature reviews
lying in children
moral development
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reputational concerns
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lying in children
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reputational concerns
Theory of mind
Truth
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