Psychological Development and Education ›› 2007, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (2): 1-5,13.

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Children’s Moral Evaluation of Lies and Truths in Different Situations

ZHANG Jing-jing, MA Feng-ling, XU Fen   

  1. State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2007-04-15 Published:2007-04-15

Abstract: This study investigated the situation effect on children's moral evaluation of lies and truths in 7, 9 and 11 years of age. Results revealed that all children evaluated lies or truths with positive meaning better than lies or truths with negative meaning in all situations. But in individual situation, there were age effects in the evaluation of modesty lie and prosocial truth, and children better for modesty lie than white lie, while the evaluation of white lie was better than lie in collective situation and lie to hurt someone. The evaluation of blunt truth-telling was getting neutral as the age increased, that was different from truths in other situations.

Key words: lying/truth-telling, moral evaluation, situation effect, children

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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