The effects of collaboration and helping on prosocial lie-telling behaviour of children

Who lies to protect another? Motivational, behavioral, and socio-cognitive predictors of children’s interventional deception

“…Another limitation is that older children were not included in the research. In our study, age did not affect interventional lie telling, and the effect of age some-times is (Talwar et al, 2007;Williams et al, 2013) and other times is not (Aydin, 2021;Talwar & Lee, 2002;) observed concerning different kinds of prosocial deception. However, the issue of children's age range is important for other reasons.…”

“…Future research on interventional deception should also include children's wider socioemotional competencies and their social experience often enumerated in other studies on prosocial deception. As recently demonstrated in an experimental study by Aydin (2021), false praises were told more frequently by preschoolers who were previously helped and participated in cooperation. Also, the experience of empathy turned out to be related to children's prosocial deception, however, only when the personal cost of lying was low (Nagar et al, 2020).…”